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vari-coloured, varicoloured, a.|ˈvɛərɪˌkʌləd|
Also 7, 9 vary-colour'd, 9 variecoloured.
[f. L. vari-us various a. + coloured ppl. a.]
Of various or different colours; variegated in colour.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 115 They adorn it according to fancy; sometimes with ribbons, sometimes with streamers of varicoloured Taffata. 1684tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts lxii. 184 Vary-colour'd, many-coated, canvas-wearing cloak-carriers. 1822New Monthly Mag. IV. 486 The vari⁓coloured clouds that hang..upon its sides. 1830Tennyson Arab. Nts. 57 A walk with vary-colour'd shells. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. xxiv. (1844) I. 198 A profusion of vari-coloured beads. 1899F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 73 All around the edge of the darkness ran an incessant tangle of vari-coloured lightnings.
b. fig. Different, diverse, diversified.
1855Browning Cleon 161 My works, in all these vari⁓coloured kinds. 185.Lowell Leg. Brittany ii. xxxii, Where fifty voices in one strand did twist Their varicoloured tones. |