varicolored
English
Alternative forms
- varicoloured
Etymology
vari- + color + -ed
Adjective
varicolored
- Having a variety of colors; variegated or motley.
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, Book 2, p, 128,
- […] the habit of the greater part of them is only a wreath of Callico tyed about their heads; their mid-parts are circled with a Zone of vari-colored plad, and have Sandalls upon their feet, elsewhere being naked […]
- 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], volume I, Shammar edition, [London]: […] Burton Club […], OCLC 939632161, page 62:
- The Fisherman looked into the water and was much astonished to see therein vari-coloured fishes, white and red, blue and yellow; however he cast his net and, hauling it in, saw that he had netted four fishes, one of each colour.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, 1978, Chapter 1, p. 15,
- The varicolored cloud of dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.
- 2009, Zadie Smith, “Speaking in Tongues” in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, New York: Penguin,
- Watching Jesse Jackson in tears in Grant Park, pressed up against the varicolored American public, it seemed like he, at least, had received the answer he needed: only a many-voiced man could have spoken to that many people.
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, Book 2, p, 128,
Related terms
- variegate
- variegated
Translations
having a variety of colours
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