duocolor

English

Etymology

Fromduo-+‎color.

Adjective

duocolor(notcomparable)(rare)

1. Havingtwocolors.
   • 1938,Journal of the Biological Photographic Association,page71:

     If daylight is present, the resulting pictures may show aduocoloreffect—the highlights and middle tones will be correctly rendered but the shadows may reflect the daylight and photograph quite blue.

   • 1948,Gas Appliance Merchandising,volume20,page33:

     Aduocolorscheme, a combination of wine and light tan, is used as a decorative effect.

   • 1980,Peter Krause, Henry A. Shull,The Complete Guide to Cibachrome Printing,Ziff-Davis Publishing Company,→ISBN,page117:

     […]correct a lack of color contrast balance in a slide or print material, to lighten the shadow areas of a print, or to obtainduocoloror monochrome effects.

   • 1995May 9, Guy T. Rice, “Re: Disappointed in 4E....(Multi-lands)”, inrec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc(Usenet), message-ID <[email protected] >:

     Oh come on! Saying you can't make a tricolor deck without multilands was bad enough, but now you're saying you can't even make a reliableduocolordeck? _Just how bad are you_ at deck construction?

   • 1997,Lois Patterson, Jon M. Duff,Web Page Design,→ISBN,page60:

     Use GIF format for anyduocolorimage (such as black and white or yellow and red).

   • 2017January 10, A. G. Howard,RoseBlood,Abrams Books,→ISBN:

     With theduocolorjob, white at the scalp and fuchsia at the nape, she looks like a grumpy powder puff.

Synonyms

• bichrome
• bicolour
• bicoloured
• dichromatic
• two-tone

Translations

having two colors—seebicolour