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English
Etymology
From color + -less.
Adjective
colorless (comparative more colorless, superlative most colorless)
- US standard spelling of colourless.
1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter I, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons , New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, →OCLC, page 1:The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.
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