coloration
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English
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Etymology
From French coloration, from Latin colōrātiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
coloration (countable and uncountable, plural colorations)
- The act or art of coloring.
- The quality of being colored.
- (music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
- (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
- Political tendency.
- 1968, Bernard Cosman, Robert Jack Huckshorn, Republican Politics, page 88:
- Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents.
- 2014, Kevin P. Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition, page 175:
- The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration.
Derived terms
Translations
act of coloring
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notational device
ornamental division
See also
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
coloration f (plural colorations)
Further reading
- “coloration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.