polychrome

A piece of multicolored pottery.

Adjective

  1. Using multiple or many colours.
    • A polychrome two-handled jar with red and white streaks on a dark ground. - 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 52:

    Synonyms: polychromatic multicolor multicoloured motley variegated

    Coordinate Terms: achromatic colorless monochrome monochromatic monotone unicolor bichrome bichromatic dichromatic duotone bicolor trichrome trichromatic tritone tricolor

  2. Executed in the manner of polychromy.
    • polychrome printing

Origin

From poly- + -chrome.

Noun

  1. A piece of multicolored pottery.
    • Maya influence is particularly noticeable in the decorative elements depicted on Ulua polychromes and the development of complex syntactic rules governing the organization of decorative motifs into an integrated...
  2. esculin (so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions)

Forms

polychromes

Verb

  1. To paint or dye with multiple colours.
  2. To divide (a dye etc.) into multiple colours.

Forms

polychromes polychroming polychromed