释义 |
discolourment|dɪsˈkʌləmənt| [f. discolour v. + -ment.] The act of discolouring, or fact of being discoloured; discoloration.
1810Bentham Packing (1821) 176 A picture which cannot be charged with hostile distortion or discolourment. 1839J. R. Danley Introd. Beaum. & Fl. Wks. I. 25 They had not his imagination to throw its splendid discolourment over all realities. 1859Tennent Ceylon II. ix. v. 490 Accidents..involving the damage of the coffee by sea-water, or its discolourment by damp. |