parti-colored
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of parti-colored
1525–35; parti variegated < Middle French ≪ Latin partītus divided, past participle of partīre to part. See party
Example Sentences
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Viewed another way, in a characteristic trick of this masterly artist, the green plane could be a tattered curtain, with a parti-colored world — unknowable, seductive, beautiful, malignant — visible through its holes.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021
In its 20,000-square-foot eastern section, the Lot will also offer a public art exhibition, “Rainbow City,” a collection of large, bulbous, parti-colored inflatable sculptures by Friends With You, an art-and-design collective based in Miami.
From New York Times • May 25, 2011
The neutral dress sets off the sitter’s pink sash and flowers, her rouged cheeks, the yellow festoon on the stone wall and the wreath of parti-colored flowers in her hand.
From Washington Post
At sundown, heralds in parti-colored livery tilted silver trumpets, blew sweetly toward the dusky sky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her hair was gathered in a bunch of floppy horns, sprouting from parti-colored scrunchies.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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