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Definition of Particoloured
1. Adjective. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly. "Pied daisies"
Similar to: Colored, Colorful, Coloured
Derivative terms: Calico, Motley, Motley
Definition of Particoloured
1. Adjective. Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Particoloured
Literary usage of Particoloured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"In plain weaving it is possible to produce strip« by the пм of bands of coloured
warp, and chocks whore both warp and weft are particoloured. ..."
2. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"... to tew together, in such a sort as to make a particoloured shew j ю hearken
to, to listen, to attend. ... Striped, particoloured in long streaks. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... bris, speckled, particoloured, mixed, having the character indicated by the
term with which it is joined in a partial degree, w. brith adnabod dyn, ..."
4. Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them by Archibald Little (1899)
"—Monastery of the particoloured Cliff. THE country round Ichang has always some
special beauty, and in autumn it is the tints, shown to especial advantage ..."
5. The Dictionary of Religion: An Encyclopedia of Christian and Other Religious by William Benham (1887)
"[2] From the Latin pica, " a magpie," so called from its pied or particoloured
appearance, alluding to the employment of different coloured letters. ..."
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