varicolored

[ vair-i-kuhl-erd ]

/ ˈvɛər ɪˌkʌl ərd /

having various colors; variegated; motley: a varicolored print.

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First recorded in 1655–65; vari(ous) + colored

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Many of them were large and varicolored, and left behind them a long train of fire.
Our Day|W. A. Spicer
There were clusters of varicolored seven sisters lifting up their bright petals.
Blue Ridge Country|Jean Thomas
Most agates are banded amygdules in which the silica has been laid in varicolored, concentric layers (Fig. 222).
The Elements of Geology|William Harmon Norton
The varicolored lights were still bright in the sky when the answering signal rose from the bay.
Blacksheep! Blacksheep!|Meredith Nicholson

The Mist rose swiftly in a single vast globule of varicolored reflections.
The Fifth-Dimension Tube|William Fitzgerald Jenkins

adj.

1660s, from Latin varius (see vary) + English colored.