Lexicographical Neighbors of Coloury
Literary usage of Coloury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phycologia Australica; or, A history of Australian seaweeds by William Henry Harvey (1863)
"when dry, is a dull and somewhat purplish red, not unlike that of the more coloury
varieties of ... coloury ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"The ordinary descriptions of Jamaica are again 1«. to 2«. lower; all qualities
of Demerara and Berbice 3«. to 4«. lower ; St. Domingo, good ordinary coloury ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"coloury, adj. roan or spotted. Said of cows that are not self- coloured.
In auctioneer's posters one frequently sees a stock of cows described as " good, ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"An uncertain day—a water- coloury sort oi day, which—may the omen be propitious
1—turned ... My cabman, with a'watery-coloury eye, but gin-and-watery voice, ..."
5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"coloury, fond of, or adorned with, colour. Behold there starts up a little man .
. . roundly charging you with being too airy and cheery—too volatile and ..."
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