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tritoned en · ADJ

Etymology

From tri- + toned.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having a tritone.
   • Scarcely a score of years after the passing of the Prince of Music, in spite of so many authoritative fillips on the ear, the chromatic cat came back with all its slurred miauling and was heard once more on the musical stage, this time puffed up in an array of hysteric sounds of augmented, diminished, tritoned and disconnected “daring skips”, forsooth a veritable harlequin exhibition of variegated disharmonies. 1932 February, The Caecilia, volume 59, number 2, page 67, column 2:
   • I did not ask myself if the tritoned voice had been real or a dream. 2020, Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer, Amulet Books, →ISBN:
   • Thus, the seven colors of the spectrum are attuned to the seven tones of the musical scale.[…]Rays from the Sun, the planets and the Moon as they play upon the earth are also tritoned and tricolored. a. 1975, Corinne Heline, “The Holy Ghost Manifest in Tone and Color”, in Healing and Regeneration Through Color / Music, Marina del Rey, Calif.: DeVorss & Co., published 1987, →ISBN, pages 6–7:
2. (not-comparable) Having three tones.
   • The RGB tritoned version was printed out at 300dpi at A4 for display on my studio wall, while the CMYK version was submitted for use in this book. 2003, Duncan Evans, “Duotones and Tritones”, in A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Portrait Photography, AVA Publishing SA, →ISBN, page 115:
   • JamesTen, wearing tritoned Saturn Student Sneakers and a rakish Ruffalo pseudodacron UCLA Youth Shirt, adjusted his heavy pseudospecs and entered the shoddy plastic building housing E.T.T.T.P.U. 1965, Frank Anmar, “The Fasterfaster Affair”, in William F. Nolan, editor, The Pseudo-People, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 207:
   • The tritoned off-white, beige, and standard blue platform motif leaves a lot of room for improvement. 2000, Dave Frattini, “Bay Ridge, Broadway, and the Sea Beach: The N and R Lines”, in The Underground Guide to New York City Subways, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 246:

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