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varicoloured

a. (context British spelling English) (alternative spelling of varicolored English)

WordNet
varicoloured
  1. adj. having a variety of colors [syn: varicolored, variegated]

  2. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley, calico, multicolor, multicolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored]

Usage examples of "varicoloured".

Twenty-six dollars the entire set, including silk-screen canvas, varicoloured yarns, and directions.

She handed it to the officer, picked up the umbrella, the handbag and a sheaf of varicoloured papers and came over to the stretcher trolley carrying them.

Raw materials came from salvaged debris and heaps of varicoloured mud the batrachians dug from the swamp.

In the valley the pattern of fields was exact and crowded as a new patchwork quilt, varicoloured and of many textures.

Dupre had converted into one long space illuminated by a number of twisted, varicoloured lamps suspended on loops of delicate iron chain.

Precious or no, the stones were bright and twinkly and varicoloured, and proudly worn.

Nearby other orchids towered, creating the usual varicoloured fairyland.

Their vehicles remainedhovering, ranked in curving tiers in the sky at the borders of Diaydohu like the varicoloured levels of a strange stadium floating in the void.

Small electric lights, with varicoloured globes, were arranged about the lake, and by a unique arrangement electricity was introduced under the water of the lake and caused to dance about in imitation of varicoloured fish.

The propensity of the subsurface of his large face to coagulate into blotches of purple and white was in full sway, making him seem at the point of fracturing into small varicoloured pieces like a dropped jigsaw puzzle.

It swirled and bubbled, and kaleidoscopic, varicoloured patterns played across its glistening surface, not unlike oil on water.

They pictured an all-pervasive, varicoloured grid covering plains and valleys, forests and pastures, mapping the spirit of the land and its alliance with the heavens.

There were eleven of these Transcendental beings, each one instantiated into a form as luminous and varicoloured as his own.

Raw materials came from salvaged debris and heaps of varicoloured mud the batrachians dug from the swamp.