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particolouredparticoloredadj.Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: party adj., party adv., coloured adj. Etymology: < either party adj. or party adv. + coloured adj. Compare party adj. 1, parti- comb. form1.The α. forms are very frequent in the 18th cent., and party-coloured is the only spelling listed in Johnson (1755). However, in the 19th cent. β. forms become more frequent, and are now more usual both in Britain and North America. the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [adjective] > having specific markings α. 1530 Gen. xxx. f. xlijv And he toke out that same daye the he gootes that were partie & of dyuerse coloures, & all the she gootes that were spotted and partie coloured. 1535 Gen. xxx. F The speckled and partye coloured goates, and all the spotted and partye coloured kyddes. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach iii. f. 139 The pollicie of Iacob..in procuring of partie coloured Lambes. 1630 tr. G. Botero (rev. ed.) 143 A Guard of Swisse, attired in partie-coloured-Cloth. 1684 N. Luttrell Diary in (1857) I. 296 The new serjeants..putt on their party coloured robes. 1693 J. Edwards I. v. 178 A rich Partie-coloured Vest. 1712 J. Addison No. 265. ¶5 I looked..on this little party-coloured Assembly, as upon a Bed of Tulips. 1805 W. Wordsworth iv. 31 Party-coloured garments gay. 1852 R. S. Surtees xii. lxxi. 401 Broad-backed partycoloured jockeys. 1875 J. R. Lowell iv. i All party-coloured threads the weaver Time Sets in his web. 1953 Z. Cope xi. 77 He discovered at once they [sc. the pictures] represented solid bodies, when to that time he considered them only as party-coloured planes, or surfaces diversified with variety of paint. β. a1592 R. Greene (1594) sig. G2 Iuno..mounted on her parti-coloured coach.1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus ii. 72 This kinde of particoloured marble.1688 R. Holme iii. 127/2 A Barber is always known by his Cheque parti-coloured Apron.1706 J. Addison i. vi The particolour'd gay Alcove.1736 A. Pope iii. 155 Particolour'd troops, a shining train, Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain.1775 J. Ash Suppl. Tambouring, the act of ornamenting with a kind of particoloured needlework.1822 W. Irving xxi. 183 Making garlands of parti-coloured rags.1845 P. J. Bailey (ed. 2) 214 Double and triple particoloured suns.1869 J. C. Atkinson Crewel, to cover a ball or other object with particoloured worsted worked in a peculiar manner.1879 G. Meredith II. xiii. 275 The Pope's parti-coloured body guard.1893 E. B. Heaton in 23 Nov. The slopes..are parti-colored.1922 R. Leighton 285 All colours [of Pekingese] allowable, red, fawn, black, black and tan, sable, brindle, white and parti-coloured.1952 V. G. Childe xi. 219 Hand-made particoloured black and red vases of ‘Khirbet Kerak ware’.1988 G. Adair 45 He..slept..like Harlequin in parti-coloured pantaloons, the right leg dark, the left one light.2000 No. 17. 63/2 The codpiece varied from the particolored covering as early as 1370, to the three-piece unit of the Tudor and Elizabethan courts.the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] 1591 M. Sutcliffe ix. 195 Would it not be a parti-coloured religion..that should be made by men of motly coats? 1622 S. Ward 110 Their delights..particoloured & spotted with mixture of sorrow. c1710 M. Prior 12 In life party-colour'd, half pleasure, half care. 1803 2 96 By their quaintness and party-coloured learning. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson 184 He got to bed with these parti-coloured thoughts. 2002 (Nexis) 22 Mar. The academy, with its military discipline and bullying, is a violent microcosm of ‘particoloured Peruvian society’. Compounds 1901 E. R. Lankester in 8 165 Æluropus must be removed from association with the Bears..and is no longer to be spoken of as ‘the Parti-coloured Bear’, but as ‘the Great Panda’. 1923 2 Nov. p. xii/2 The carnivora are represented by a tiger, a hyena, a ‘parti-colored bear’ (Aeluropus), [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1530 |