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coloury, colory, a.|ˈkʌlərɪ|
[f. colour, + -y1.]
1. colloq. Characterized by or abounding in colour.
1853C. Brontë Villette xxviii. (D.), Roundly charging you with being..too flowery and coloury. 1884Chesh. Gloss., Coloury, roan or spotted. Said of cows that are not self-coloured. In auctioneers' posters one frequently sees a stock of cows described as ‘good, coloury cows’.
2. Commercial. Having a colour characteristic of good quality. Applied to hops; also to a particular class of coffee beans of a bright bluish tint.
1880Daily News 28 Oct. 3/8 Coffee..Good middling to fine middling colory, 89s. to 95s. 1883Standard 18 May 6/5 [Coffee] Grayish, at 61s. 6d, to 63s. 6d.; coloury, at 71s. 1887Daily News 25 Jan. 2/5 (Hops) The demand for useful coloury samples of the new English growth. 1890A Coffee-broker writes: An inferior Coffee would very rarely be ‘coloury’, but even a good Coffee need not necessarily be so. The Coffee most usually described as ‘coloury’ is that from Guatemala. But Java Coffee, of equal value, is usually a light yellow and very rarely described as ‘coloury’. |