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Definition of Decolour
1. Verb. Remove color from. "The sun bleached the red shirt"
Generic synonyms: Discolor
Derivative terms: Bleach, Bleacher
Definition of Decolour
1. to decolor [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: decolor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolour
Literary usage of Decolour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts: And Collateral Information in the Arts by Arnold James Cooley (1845)
"5 grains of the best chloride of lime, dissolved in 500 grain measures of water,
will possess t he above power, and indicate 10° or proof, and will decolour ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"By extension, having the neck and shoulders exposed: said of a woman the waist
of whose dress is eut low in the neck. decolor, decolour (de-kul'or), ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench by George Maule, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, William Selwyn (1817)
"... pence'or'whe-" tue casc m substance was thus: ther it be a Kensington and Co.
were bankers in London; the decolour for the payment of in- fondants had a ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1858)
"Sulphuretted hydrogen, soluble sulphides, sulphurous acid and sulphites, together
with chlorine water, instantly decolour their alcoholic solution, ..."
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