Sentence:  Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this <WSD>translation</WSD> , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language