high-coloured
Britishadjective
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His passions are open and so is his art, with its swirling amoebic forms and its high-coloured melodrama.
From The Guardian
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
So direct an invitation was, of course, not to be refused by Hal of Hadnock; and he thanked her with high-coloured gallantry for her consideration.
From Project Gutenberg
The Girdled Cone is conspicuous among the beautiful shells of this extensive family, by the broad and rich chesnut bands, which are either two or three in number, and more or less broken into spots; in high-coloured shells the minute lines of dots between them are also of the same colour.
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Their Urine becomes thick and high-coloured, and sometimes there is a Suppression or Stoppage of it.
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