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roto

roto

9.9
Photo and feature pages in a newspaper
  • noun
  • /ˈroʊtoʊ/
  • Archaic
: rotograbado
  • The celebrity interview appeared in the weekend roto alongside colorful feature stories.

Examples

  • The Sunday roto featured stunning photographs of the city.

  • She clipped her favorite picture from the roto to add to her scrapbook.

  • He always checked the roto for the latest sports photographs on Sunday mornings.

  • I always look forward to the roto in our local newspaper.

  • The magazine's roto featured an exclusive interview with a famous actress.

  • The roto section included stunning photographs from the latest fashion show.

  • In the Sunday paper, the roto had several pages dedicated to travel articles.

Synonyms

rotogravure
vsroto
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A way of printing that uses a metal cylinder to make clear, colorful pictures for magazines

is the specific newspaper section printed this way focusing on photos and features

Surface Forms

roto singular
rotos plural

Etymology

Roto is short for rotogravure, a printing method that uses a cylinder that 'rotates', like rotate, so roto came to mean the newspaper pages made by that rotating press, often full of photos.