polychrome

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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 Literature

They’re known for their polychrome blooms, as well as for the “really painful” stinging hairs on their stems, says Tilo Henning, one of the study’s lead authors.

From New York Times

Since 1964, the Metropolitan Museum has been decorating its holiday tree with eighteenth-century angels from Naples: exquisite polychrome figurines, robed in silk, with terra-cotta faces and wings carved of wood.

From The New Yorker

Baghramian, who was born in Iran, will present abstract, polychrome sculptures, in the niches, that “seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam,” the museum said.

From New York Times

But complete confidence is unavailable to polychrome experts who extrapolate data from only a few surviving examples of painted artifacts.

From New York Times