high-coloured
Britishadjective
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The story is brilliantly revealed through many overlapping accounts, tales told from different points of view in the Southern tradition like stories on the porch but all washed in the same, high-coloured prose.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
She could keep her wits, though her cheek was high-coloured and her hand had a secret desire to be nervous.
From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Susan Warner
In this false and high-coloured view of things, he wrote the famous and absurd note, in which he pronounced himself another Themistocles, come to sit by the hearth of the British people.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
He nodded at me amiably and continued his talk with Legrand, the second officer, who was dark and high-coloured, with a restless expression of face.
From Hurricane Island by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson
I have forgotten the details; no doubt they were high-coloured.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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