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What is "multicoloured"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
multicoloured
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A giant multicoloured flag waved in the midday sun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hour after hour the great multicoloured sails swept past.
▪ Otherwise he had used the existing old army blanket folded beneath him and on top the blanket of multicoloured woollen squares.
▪ Outside, the bright lights and multicoloured signs blinked and gleamed in the cold darkness.
▪ That was who it must have been, for their faces were messily multicoloured.
▪ The plate was then varnished and dried, providing a hard, multicoloured screen.
▪ The slides were white and round with protruding domes of multicoloured plastic.
▪ Therese was huddled in nearly every garment she possessed, slacks, jumpers, her shabby grey coat and the multicoloured shawl.
▪ This gives an all-over multicoloured effect to the knitting.
Wiktionary
multicoloured

a. (alternative spelling of multicolored English)

WordNet
multicoloured

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, multicolored, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]

Usage examples of "multicoloured".

By late afternoon, his conscious perception point seemed to be hanging below a supergalaxy of multicoloured stars, which threatened to make him giddy as he tried to examine it in all directions at once.

Its twists of wire and metal, its knots of multicoloured glass were intricate and lovingly crafted.

We researchers, on the other hand, leave ours more casually open, swinging round us as we sprint down the corridor from office to lab, though that tradition is fading a bit now as biologists spend less and less time amongst chemical reagents and living things and more in the computer room watching complex multicoloured displays on the screens of the image analysis gear.

He was somewhere inside the huge, automated plant, which was dimly lit by multicoloured guidelights here and there.

Their short-sleeve shirts are equipped with pocket protectors in which is displayed a formidable array of multicoloured pens and pencils.

The days passed, dissolving into each other under the force of the returning rain, and despite chills fevers diarrhoea they stayed alive, improving their shelter by pulling down the lower branches of sundris and mangroves, drinking the red milk of nipa‑fruits, acquiring the skills of survival, such as the power of strangling snakes and throwing sharpened sticks so accurately that they speared multicoloured birds through their gizzards.

It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination.

He admitted her to the chamber, and shut out the sights and sounds of the soft pink sands of the beach, the lime-green waters, and the multicoloured gardens by closing the hatch of the privacy bubble behind her and drawing the beaded curtains.