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Definition of Colour in
1. Verb. Add color to. "They colour in their hair "; "Colorize black and white film"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Blackwash, Motley, Parti-color, Polychrome, Polychromise, Polychromize, Azure, Empurple, Purple, Purpurate, Aurify, Verdigris, Pinkify, Incarnadine, Brown, Embrown, Handcolor, Handcolour, Tinct, Tinge, Tint, Touch, Pigment, Hue, Imbue, Retouch, Silver, Gray, Grey, Tone, Redden, Blotch, Mottle, Streak
Derivative terms: Color, Coloration, Coloring, Coloring, Color, Colouring, Colouring
Antonyms: Discolor
Definition of Colour in
1. Verb. To add colours to a black-and-white drawing, using coloured drawing equipment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colour In
Literary usage of Colour in
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1883)
"First of aU there is absolute blindness to colour in primitive man ; next the
eye distinguishes between red and black ; thereafter colour and light part ..."
2. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1885)
"Red is the colour in an overwhelming majority of the Gallican rites : Lyons ...
Green was the colour in the Paris sequence of 1685, but white in the earlier ..."
3. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen, Samuel Williston (1895)
"... and to this the books refer, when colour is mentioned per se, without the
distinction between express and implied. Colour, in this sense, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1856)
"The following paper was read :— " Note on an indication of depth of Primaeval
Seas, afforded by the remains of colour in Fossil Testacea. ..."
5. The Essentials of æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and by George Lansing Raymond (1921)
"HARMONY OF colour in THE ARTS OF SIGHT. Production of the Colours of the
Spectrum—Effect of Light upon Colours— Definition of Terms—Complementary Colours—As ..."
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