polychrome
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On the kitchen walls, the “Lauenstein Yellow” tile cascades down into polychrome patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The mug was described in the auction catalogue as "a tin glazed commemorative mug with polychrome decoration depicting a bust length portrait of King Charles II, crowned and wearing armour and titled 'CD2 and 1660'".
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023
After a yearslong renovation, the Hispanic Society Museum & Library partially reopened last fall with a heart-stopping exhibition of polychrome and gilded wood sculptures.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
It also has more than 290 prehistoric glyphs, or hieroglyphic symbols used to represent sounds or meanings, “making it the largest collection of indigenous people’s polychrome paintings in Missouri,” according to the auction website.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021
The debris, rolling and flowing down the sides of the volcanic mountains, arching in great jets over the polychrome landscape, is more than enough to cover the impact craters.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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The Y, from 1930, by Dwight James Baum, who designed the building to look like an Italian hill town, with battlements and balconies and polychromed sculptures of evangelists.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020
“I consider his polychromed Popeye a current masterpiece,” Taschen said, “and could imagine sharing a room with it.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
USA Today is the cross-pollination of print journalism and television, aimed at a generation conditioned to a diet of polychromed, encapsulated news.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Native craftsmen also lavished loving skill on the churches' ornate, polychromed interiors, hewing their sculptures from native woods and stone or molding them from a paste made of corn.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Inside I found an extremely rich polychromed Renaissance "reredos," and there was also the somewhat remarkable tomb of "Claude Talon," kept in good order and repair.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards