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  • 111painted — adjective 1. coated with paint (Freq. 2) freshly painted lawn furniture • Ant: ↑unpainted • Similar to: ↑finished, ↑stained, ↑varnished, ↑whitewashed …

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  • 112particolored — adjective having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly a jester dressed in motley the painted desert a particolored dress a piebald horse pied daisies • Syn: ↑motley, ↑ …

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  • 113pinto — adj. & n. US adj. piebald. n. (pl. os) a piebald horse. Etymology: Sp., = mottled, ult. f. L pictus past part. of pingere paint …

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  • 114varicolored — adjective 1. having a variety of colors • Syn: ↑varicoloured, ↑variegated • Similar to: ↑varied 2. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly a jester dressed in motley the painted desert …

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  • 115skewbald — adj. & n. adj. (of an animal) with irregular patches of white and another colour (properly not black) (cf. PIEBALD). n. a skewbald animal, esp. a horse. Etymology: ME skued (orig. uncert.), after PIEBALD …

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  • 116skew|bald — «SKYOO BLD», adjective, noun. –adj. (of horses) irregularly marked with patches of white, brown, or red. –n. a skewbald horse: »Crompton, on his skewbald, was the only scorer (London Times). ╂[Middle English skewed. Compare etym. under piebald.… …

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  • 117amber brownish-yellow yellow-brown — colorful colorful adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}. Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing}; {prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,… …

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  • 118amethyst — colorful colorful adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}. Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing}; {prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,… …

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  • 119auburn reddish-brown — colorful colorful adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}. Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing}; {prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,… …

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  • 120aureate gilded gilt gold golden — colorful colorful adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}. Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing}; {prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,… …

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