English

Alternative forms

• particolored (US)

Adjective

particoloured ‎(comparative more particoloured, superlative most particoloured)

1. Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.
   • 1883, Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 78, page 54:

     O foolish one! this molded earth is naught; / This particolored vault of heaven is naught; / Our sojourn in this seat of life and death / Is but one breath, and what is that but naught?

Synonyms

• see multicoloured

Derived terms

• particoloured bat
• particoloured bear

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