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French
Etymology
From bigarrer.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bigarré (feminine bigarrée, masculine plural bigarrés, feminine plural bigarrées)
- colourful
1679, Jean de La Fontaine, “Le Singe et le Léopard”, in Fables, book IX, published 1874:Et si je meurs, il veut avoir / Un manchon de ma peau : tant elle est bigarrée, / Pleine de taches, marquetée, / Et vergetée, et mouchetée !- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1759–1767, Laurence Sterne, chapter LX, in Joseph-Pierre Frenais, transl., Vie et opinions de Tristram Shandy, published 1803:Il rouloit tout entier sur la variété des longs nez, sur leur utilité, sur la manière de les mettre à profit, sur le temps d’en faire usage ; le style tant soit peu bigarré de ce célèbre écrivain déconcertoit de temps en temps mon père, et lui faisoit prendre une chose pour l’autre.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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