- a variation of self-colored.
self-coloured
Britishadjective
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having only a single and uniform colour
self-coloured flowers
a self-coloured dress
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having the natural or original colour
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retaining the colour of the thread before weaving
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Example Sentences
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All that we can say is that the poorer classes were clothed principally in self-coloured garments, and that the dyes used for the clothes of the nobles were of very brilliant hues.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
The flowers are both self-coloured as well as marbled, spotted, striped, margined, and fringed.
From The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright
It was by absolute reliance upon the depth and brilliancy of self-coloured glass that all the beautiful effects of early glass were obtained.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
To be of good paper made with zigzag, with board papers of self-coloured paper of good quality, or vellum.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
It was a plain, self-coloured paper, but we were rather attached to it, and didn't like the idea of a change.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 by Various
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