intercolourintercolorv.
rare.
transitive. To intersperse with colours.
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 101 The whole bodie [is] so admirably intercouloured with variety, that it is in vaine for the witte or art of man, once to go about or endeauour the æmulous imitation thereof.
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