parti-colored

[ pahr-tee-kuhl-erd ]

/ ˈpɑr tiˌkʌl ərd /

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adjective

having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.

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Origin of parti-colored

1525–35; parti variegated <Middle French ≪ Latin partītus divided, past participle of partīre to part. See party

Two endless streams of people moved, particolored, in opposite directions along the narrow street.
Narcissus|Evelyn Scott
On the occasion of certain festivals, the Indian women wear a particolored dress, called a faldillin.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi
The large dining room—a stall, manger, as a friend of mine called it—is filled with small tables covered with particolored cloths.
The Civil War in America|William Howard Russell
Each medicine was in an attractive little particolored woolen bag.
Inca Land|Hiram Bingham

Particolored: partly of one, partly of another color: divided into two or more color fields.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology|John. B. Smith