1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xxv. 466 For he [sc. Jacob] liking the particolours [sc. sheep] cast white straked rods into the watring places.

1961 C. H. D. Todd Pop. Whippet vi. 90 Like most judges..I dislike a ‘butterfly nose’, but it is permissible in a parti~colour.

1971 F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 262 In particolors [sc. cocker spaniels], the contrasting color must be ten per cent or more.

2002 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 7 Jan. 1 jj Blacks are most docile, ASCOBs [sc. (dogs of) any solid colour other than black] are good with people but are more active, and parti-colors are ‘extremely active’, she said.

1619 T. Middleton Inner-Temple Masque sig. C In Garments halfe white, halfe blacke, their Faces seamd with that party Colour.

1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vii. 21 Then mounting of his sooty Sack, He gave the Barber such a Thwack, That made him look of party Colour, Betwixt a Collier and a Fuller.

1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 21 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 134 The breast is usually ornament with various figures of party colours rought with the quills of the Porcupine.

?1850 W. Phillips Not Guilty ii. 24 The ‘Bad Characters’..are clad in drab and black parti-colour, and they work with a belt fastened round the waist under the frock.

1876 V. Fane Queen of Fairies iii. 39 Oh, sorry consolation! but life is made Of parti-colour like a harlequin.

1909 Agric. Jrnl. Cape Good Hope May 523 The white wing quills pass gradually into the black feathers, and four or five feathers at each end are a parti-colour of black and white.

1930 M. F. Wormser Ostrich Industry 11 Towards the end of the series of wing quills, 3 or 4 plumes of the cock, instead of being pure white, are a particolour of black and white; these are called fancies or byocks.

1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 113 Pekingese... Colour red, tricolour, parti-colour.

1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia vii. 44 in J. Smith Map of Virginia 30 young women came naked out of the woods..their bodies al painted, some white, some red, some black, some partie colour, but every one different.

1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis ii. 19 The divine way of working is not parti-colour or humoursome.

1982 O.E.D. Suppl. at Pied Piper A piper in parti-colour dress who rid the town of Hameln (Hamelin) of a plague of rats.

2002 Cat Fancy May 37/1 Six combinations of the basic colors can create particolor cats, such as torties (ebony/red).

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 28 Being..intermedled by the plow with the soyle, it puffie-lights and party colours the same.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 27 A bubble which himself hath made and the sun hath particoloured.

1971 F. Meynell My Lives xi. 168 A man..can paint..or decorate a room or parti-colour a motor-car.