precolor
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editprecolor (not comparable)
- (film) Before the advent of color film, and thus presented in black and white.
- 2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times[1]:
- They also bring to mind stylish movie sets in precolor Hollywood; Fred and Ginger or a phalanx of Busby Berkeley dancers could easily drift among their mirrored, ethereal forms.
Verb
editprecolor (third-person singular simple present precolors, present participle precoloring, simple past and past participle precolored)
- To color beforehand.
- 1999, Stan Wagon, Mathematica in Action, Page 522:
- This approach also makes use of the Precolored option to FourColoring, which in this case is used to precolor all vertices but one.