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English
Pronunciation
Noun
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Adjective
colour (not comparable)
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Verb
colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.
Pronunciation
Noun
colour (plural colours or colours)
- colour, hue, shade
- pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
- method (literary or rhetorical)
- justification, explanation (often feigned)
Descendants
See also
Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)
| whit
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grey, hor
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blak
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| red; cremesyn, gernet
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citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne
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yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
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| grasgrene
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grene
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| plunket; ewage
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asure, livid
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blewe, blo, pers
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| violet; inde
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rose, murrey; purpel, purpur
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claret
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References
Old French
Noun
colour oblique singular, f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color