单词 | colourishing |
释义 | colourishingn. rare after 17th cent. The addition of colour (in various senses); colouring. Also: an instance of this. In later use only with reference to quot. 1646. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > [noun] staininga1382 colouring?a1425 littingc1440 tincturing1616 colourishing1646 colourization1825 coloration1837 tinting1853 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica To Rdr. sig. a3 New impressions [were] but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before. View more context for this quotation 1685 A. Tyler Mem. Life & Actions Jhon the Great To Rdr. Methinks its genuine Charms and spakling Graces, would have been either more hid, or marr'd, by any..Artificial Colourishing. 1904 W. C. Russell Wrong Side Out xvi. 265 A tolerably good-looking man with..large, bland, dusky eyes suggestive of a paternity not wholly free of the ‘colourishing’, to use Sir Thomas Browne's word, of African blood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1646 |
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