precolor

English

Alternative forms

• precolour

Etymology

From pre- +‎ color.

Adjective

precolor (not comparable)

1. (film) Before the advent of color film, and thus presented in black and white.
   • 2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     They also bring to mind stylish movie sets in precolor Hollywood; Fred and Ginger or a phalanx of Busby Berkeley dancers could easily drift among their mirrored, ethereal forms.

Verb

precolor (third-person singular simple present precolors, present participle precoloring, simple past and past participle precolored)

1. To color beforehand.
   • 1999, Stan Wagon, Mathematica in Action, Page 522:

     This approach also makes use of the Precolored option to FourColoring, which in this case is used to precolor all vertices but one.