what is a monochrome
Word Origin and History for monochrome Expand. n. 1660s, painting or drawing done in different tints of a single color, from Greek monochromos of a single color, from monos single, alone (see mono-) + khroma (genitive khromatos) color, complexion, skin (see chroma). As an adjective from 1849. Photographic sense is recorded from 1940.