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noun- A chromolithograph printed on canvas or other cloth to imitate an oil painting. Also: The peculiar form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed on water or some other immiscible liquid.

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Usage examples (31)
  • The moon left a dappled trail upon the water like an oleograph.
  • The rest was conjecture -- a riddle that only the sea, lying as blue and flat and still as the sea in a gaudy oleograph, could answer.
  • And she was as pretty as any oleograph of them all.
  • I've a rather striking oleograph of the Deutcher Kaiser.
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