parti-coloured
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of parti-coloured
C16 parti, from (obsolete) party of more than one colour, from Old French: striped, from Latin partīre to divide
Example Sentences
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Harder to cope When things got steeper, and a mountain cat With parti-coloured pelt, light on its feet, In a trice was in my face and stayed like that, Barring my way, encouraging retreat.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013
Gentlemen showed their legs to an equally startling extent Their clothes were parti-coloured.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
In parti-coloured dogs, the colours should be evenly distributed on the body.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie
Colour.—The dogs should be either black-and-white or red-and-white—i.e., parti-coloured.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie
I still purpose, after this fatal Sunday, to surprise him with the parti-coloured reliques of his childhood, and so of these old Christmas-presents to make him new ones.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
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