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
Sunlight splashes in through a wall of arched windows and shimmers on newly installed parti-colored Venetian terrazzo floors.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018
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
As pure forms in relation, they make amusing pictorial sense�the ethereal blue nude seated on a parti-colored pedestal.
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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