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Definition of Colorfully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colorfully
Literary usage of Colorfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"$1.50 colorfully written stories revealing the soul of New York's Chinatown.
A romance with the usual Oppenheim dash, developing the situation arising from ..."
2. Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica & St. Lucia Alive! by Lynne M. Sullivan (2000)
"The only thing better than the food is the casual setting. Diners sit at plastic
tables on a colorfully decorated garden terrace overlooking the Caribbean. ..."
3. One America Indivisible: A National Conversation on American Pluralism and by Sheldon Hackney (1999)
"Even some older immigrants say they still wrestle with identity questions once
they find themselves inside the colorfully multiethnic American house. ..."
4. Making Markets: Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Post by Shafiqul Islam, Michael Mandelbaum (1993)
"... or made up of “kids in yellow pants,” as Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoi
colorfully and damagingly put it at the beginning of the reform program. ..."
5. Adventure Guide to St. Martin & St. Barts by Lynne M. Sullivan (2003)
"The yellow and blue plates and dining room decor will remind you of sunny Provence;
the colorfully tiled lobster tank is strikingly Caribbean. ..."
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