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▪ I. ˈparti-colour, particolour, a. (n.)
Shortened from parti-coloured, esp. in reference to a dog's coat, marked in patches of two distinct colours. Cf. rose-colour, etc. Also as n., esp. a dog whose coat is coloured in this way.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xii. xxv. 466 For he [Jacob] liking the particolours [i.e. sheep] cast white straked rods into the watring places. 1662Glanvill Lux Orient. ii. (1682) 15 The divine way of working is not parti-colour or humoursome. 1945C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 113 Pekingese... Colour red, tricolour, parti-colour. 1961C. H. D. Todd Popular Whippet vi. 90 Like most judges..I dislike a ‘butterfly nose’, but it is permissible in a parti⁓colour. 1971F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 200 Colors [of Tibetan terriers] are white, golden, cream, gray or smoke, black particolor and tricolor. Ibid. 262 In particolors [sc. cocker spaniels], the contrasting color must be ten per cent or more.
▪ II. parti-colour, party-colour, v. rare.
[Back-formation from next.]
trans. To make particoloured, colour variously. So ˈparti-ˌcolouring vbl. n.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 28 Being..intermedled by the plow with the soyle, it puffie-lights and party colours the same. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. Disc. xiv. 27 A bubble which himself hath made and the sun hath particoloured. 1880Burton Reign Q. Anne I. i. 38 In the feminine element there was relief in a party-colouring of rich costumes. 1971F. Meynell My Lives xi. 168 A man..can paint..or decorate a room or parti-colour a motor-car. |