particoloured

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particoloured (comparative more particoloured, superlative most particoloured)

  1. 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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