particoloured
English
Alternative forms
- particolored (US)
- parti-colored
Adjective
particoloured (comparative more particoloured, superlative most particoloured)
- Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.
- 1883, Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 78, page 54:
- O foolish one! this molded earth is naught; / This particolored vault of heaven is naught; / Our sojourn in this seat of life and death / Is but one breath, and what is that but naught?
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Synonyms
- motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored
Derived terms
- particoloured bat
- particoloured bear
Translations
made up of sections having different colours
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