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Definition of Light-colored

1. Adjective. (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent. "A light-colored powder"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Light-colored

Literary usage of Light-colored

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The light-colored areas were found to correspond with the light-colored ... It is true that much tobacco is apparently normally as light colored as the ..."

2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"Had on, when he went away, a brown cloth coat with blue sleeves, a light colored cloth jacket, leather breeches, and blue stockings. ..."

3. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1921)
"... The soils derived from trachytes and trachytic lavas are generally light-colored and light in texture; the latter from the presence of ..."

4. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"Dots numerous, small, often light colored and submerged, sometimes russet. Calyx tube long, wide at top, conical to funnel-shape. Stamens median. ..."

5. American Druggist (1884)
"2 and 3 were quite light colored ; which shows that the color of the opium is no guide to its morphine strength; and, indeed, I have found that the physical ..."

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