colour
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)
Adjective
colour (not comparable)
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Middle English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈluːr/
Noun
colour (plural colours or coloures)
- colour, hue
- The colour of an aforementioned thing or region
- (heraldry) Heraldic colour
- A pigment, dye, or other instrument for colouring
- A literary or rhetorical method or technique
- A reasoning, justification, explanation (often a feigned one)
References
- “cǒlǒur (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Old French
Noun
colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color
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