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English
Adjective
particoloured (comparative more particoloured, superlative most particoloured)
- Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.
1883, Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 78, page 54:O foolish one! this molded earth is naught;
This particolored vault of heaven is naught;
Our sojourn in this seat of life and death
Is but one breath, and what is that but naught?
1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:I selected a pair of loose, dark trousers bound at the waist with a russet sash, a tunic with an open neck and large pockets, and a cloak of the true fuligin of that guild of which I am still officially a master, lined with particolored brocade.
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made up of sections having different colours