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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
multicolored

also multi-colored, multi-coloured, 1845, from multi- + colored.

Wiktionary
multicolored

a. Having multiple colors. alt. Having multiple colors.

WordNet
multicolored

adj. 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, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]

Usage examples of "multicolored".

The main river now flanked the east side of Dayton, having changed course several miles to the northeast in a great, sudden wrench which heaved up multicolored layers of rock and toppled many of the buildings in downtown Dayton.

Bean gloves all in a very large size, the thinsuits that Evangeline, her long brown hair falling forward over the multicolored heap, said were made of silk, and they even said so in the label.

Verity glanced to the right and within a door glimpsed the foot of an old-fashioned bed covered with a multicolored quilt.

The man she was speaking with wore a white turban and a long, shimmering multicolored cape over a barely glimpsed tight-fitting body sock.

In the multicolored light of the holo, as rain streamed down the window behind the generations-old lace curtains, his father lifted his own glass of whiskey and sipped.

She walks to the campus with me in the morning, holding my hand, and laughs at the spamvores chasing ad icons on the street, swirling like multicolored leaves in the wind.

They assumed that she had some electronic means of cheating concealed beneath her flaring, multicolored robe.

Rheba looked out over the multicolored tide of upturned faces, sensed Jal climbing down from the kingseat behind her back and felt very vulnerable.

It was the shape he often used to communicate with Rainbow, the Zaarain construct that looked like a sunburst of multicolored crystals.

He had worn his cape open, the better to display the multicolored crystals.

Aye, how she had giggled and cooed at those brilliant, multicolored rainbows.

He whispered into the multicolored air surrounding them while raising his hands high above his head.

Their dark, mellifluous eyes were at odds to the multicolored clothing that they wore.

The magic flowed freely, cascading in multicolored splendor down her still form.

Its multicolored hues hung effortlessly in the air, aiding all with its canopy of light.