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ˈmulti-colour, n. and a.
[multi- 2, 3.]
1. a. The condition of being many-coloured.
a1849Poe Landscape Garden Wks. 1864 IV. 340 In the multiform of the tree, and in the multicolor of the flower.
b. pl. Many or various colours.
1901Daily Chron. 14 Dec. 8/4 Bars of applied silk done in multi-colours.
2. a. attrib. Applied to printing in many colours or a machine for such printing. b. adj. = next.
1881Macm. Mag. XLIV. 388 Hawkweed topped all the multi-colour weeds. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Multi⁓color Printing Press, a chromatic printing press. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Multicolour letters.—Characters cut in separate pieces for working in two or more colours. |