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Answer for the clue "Range of colours shown by East London artist? ", 7 letters:
rainbow

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection , refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc . Rainbows caused by sunlight always ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English renboga ; see rain (n.) + bow (n.). Common Germanic compound (Old Frisian reinboga , Old Norse regnbogi , Swedish regenbÄge , Dutch regenboog , German Regenbogen ). Rainbow trout (1876, American English) so called for its resplendent colors. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 multicoloured. 2 (context attributive chiefly US English) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions. 3 (context attributive English) LGBT. 4 (context poker chiefly of a flop English) compose ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rainbow \Rain"bow`\ (r[=a]n"b[=o]`), n. [AS. regenboga, akin to G. regenbogen. See Rain , and Bow anything bent.] A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the ...

Usage examples of rainbow.

It was afire with light and covered in rainbows and on its back rode a magician in black.

Minutes later his airmobile was at two thousand feet and climbing to merge into an eastbound traffic corridor with the rainbow towers of Houston gleaming in the sunlight on the skyline ahead.

And redfish and sablefish and bluegill and amberjack and striped bass and rainbow trout.

It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.

Taniquel stepped through the rainbow shimmer, Auster and Kennard following.

Immediately upon beholding its brilliant colours, he wanted to meet the creators of the rainbow star system so he took his ship down to the surface of one of the ringworlds to honour these people for their prowess and craftsmanship.

He came to Tennyson with Wardle and Schanz in the hope of finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or at least a town full of folk ready willing and delighted to be bilked at games of chance in which no chance was allowed on his side.

He fought the wind, and clomb the waves, and went on towards the rainbow.

Mr Cupples was a baffled poet trying to be a humourist--baffled--not by the booksellers or the public--for such baffling one need not have a profound sympathy--but baffled by his own weakness, his incapacity for assimilating sorrow, his inability to find or invent a theory of the universe which should show it still beautiful despite of passing pain, of checked aspiration, of the ruthless storms that lay waste the Edens of men, and dissolve the high triumph of their rainbows.

Rainbow had been entered in proper time and all regular by old Jacob, under the name of Darkie, which suited in all ways.

Dawson, whom he had tricked into temporary association by adopting one of the disguises he can so wonderfully assume, requested that gentleman to receive the Handicap Stakes, won by his horse, Darkie, alias Rainbow, and to hand them over to the treasurer of the Turon Hospital, which was accordingly done.

The ogre had wanted to do her a return favor, but she had not felt free to converse with him in dreamlet fashion and had been unable to convey her interest in the rainbow to him otherwise.

Standing near the folding-over place of Niagara, at the top of the fall, I looked across the perpetual rainbow of the foam, and saw the whole further sky deflowered by the formless, edgeless, languid, abhorrent murk of smoke from the nearest town.

From a distance he had not been able to determine what it was made of, but now he discerned that it was of whole skins of some brightly feathered birds, and that in the morning light it shimmered with rainbows of colors, like the fine feathers of pigeons he had seen in Europe, though the general feathering was much lighter in hue.

Algae did the rest, painting the geyserite in all the hues of the rainbow.