particoloured
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English[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
particoloured (comparative more particoloured, superlative most particoloured)
- Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.
- 1883, Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 78, page 54:
- O foolish one! this molded earth is naught;
This particolored vault of heaven is naught;
Our sojourn in this seat of life and death
Is but one breath, and what is that but naught?
- 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:
- I selected a pair of loose, dark trousers bound at the waist with a russet sash, a tunic with an open neck and large pockets, and a cloak of the true fuligin of that guild of which I am still officially a master, lined with particolored brocade.
Synonyms[edit]
- motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored
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Translations[edit]
made up of sections having different colours
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