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Definition of Overcolored
1. overcolor [v] - See also: overcolor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcolored
Literary usage of Overcolored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Feejee, Or, Five Years Among the Cannibals by Mary Davis Wallis (1851)
"But whatever, in her rare knowledge of this people, has tempted her fruitfully
imaginative mind, to write a book exaggerated in statement, or overcolored in ..."
2. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1897)
"After its stately yet simple progressions the music of Wagner, though perhaps
overcolored and stormy, had a new charm of its own, by contrast—you felt its ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Prof. Kocher's 200 operations for Graves' disease gave an operative mortality of
4.5 per cent., with 85 per cent, of cures. Apart from a rather overcolored ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"Charles Carleton Coffin, the war correspondent and historian, wrote of one of
the scenes there in language that will seem to many overcolored. ..."
5. Works by Washington Irving (1892)
"f Much of this picture may be overcolored by the imagination, but it is generally
confirmed * Letter of Columbus to Luis ..."
6. History of Manufactures in the United States by Victor Selden Clark (1916)
"4 We may question whether this statement is not overcolored; for in 1710, only
five years after its publication, Lieutenant-Governor 1 Memorial of some ..."
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