varicolouredvaricoloredadj.
/ˌvɛːrɪˈkʌləd/, /ˈvɛːrɪˌkʌləd/, U.S. /ˈvɛriˌkələrd/ a. Of various or different colours; variegated in colour.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective]
fawa700
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freckledc1380
motleyc1380
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specked1382
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partyc1385
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polymitec1425
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vairc1425
discoloured?1440
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varying1488
sheld1507
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piet1508
mellay1515
particoloured1530
pickled1552
varied1578
mingled1580
partly coloured1582
chequered1592
medley-coloured1593
mingle-coloured1593
piebald1594
feathered1610
changeable1612
particolour1612
enamelled1613
variousa1618
pie-coloured1619
jaspered1620
gangean1623
versicolour1628
patchwork1634
damasked1648
variously-coloureda1660
variegateda1661
agated1665
varicoloured1665
damaska1674
various-coloureda1711
pieted1721
versicoloured1721
diversicoloured1756
mosaic1776
harlequin1779
spanged1788
calico1807
piety1811
varied-coloured1811
discolorate1826
heterochromous1842
jaspé1851
discolor1859
discolorous1860
jasperoid1876
damascened1879
heterochromatic1895
variotinted1903
batik1914
varihued1921
rumbled1930
damasky1931
pepper-and-salt1940
partihued1959
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 115 They adorn it according to fancy; sometimes with ribbons, sometimes with streamers of varicoloured Taffata.
1684 tr. H. C. Agrippa Vanity Arts & Sci. (new ed.) lxii. 184 Vary-colour'd, many-coated, canvas-wearing cloak-carriers.
1822 New Monthly Mag. 4 486 The vari~coloured clouds that hang..upon its sides.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights vi, in Poems 51 A walk with varycoloured shells.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxiv. 198 A profusion of vari-coloured beads.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 73 All around the edge of the darkness ran an incessant tangle of vari-coloured lightnings.
b. figurative. Different, diverse, diversified.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective]
sunderlyeOE
manifoldeOE
selcoutha1000
felefoldc1000
mislichOE
alkinOE
manykinOE
fele-kync1175
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sundrya1325
serea1340
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muchfoldc1384
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serelepya1400
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sundryfoldc1460
multiplicate?a1475
variable?a1475
sundrilyc1480
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particoloured1591
multifarious1593
Protean1594
daedal1596
choiceful1605
Daedalian1605
multiplex1606
variated1608
diversified1611
multiplicious1617
variousa1634
multivarious1636
mosaic1644
multiple1647
omnigenous1650
chequered1656
plurifarious1656
ununiform1660
variate1677
disuniform1687
Proteusian1689
unsteady1690
unequable1693
inequable1721
variegating1727
varied1733
multitudinous1744
multifold1806
polygeneous1818
unequalized1822
ruleless1836
varicoloured185.
non-uniform1856
omnigener1857
polytypic1858
multiferous1860
variatious1871
variegated1872
polytypical1890
185. J. R. Lowell Legend of Brittany ii. xxxii Where fifty voices in one strand did twist Their varicoloured tones.
1855 R. Browning Cleon 161 My works, in all these vari~coloured kinds.
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