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‖ couleur|kulœːr|
1. The French for colour. Hence couleur de rose rose-colour, pink; borrowed in Eng.,
a. as adj. ‘rose-coloured’, ‘roseate’;
b. as adv. ‘in a rosy light, in an aspect to which fancy lends undue attractions’.
1783H. Walpole Lett. to Earl Strafford June 24, I confess my reflections are couleur de rose at present. 1835Hood Poetry, Prose, & Worse xxxiii, Our warfare is deadly and horrid..Nor tinted with couleur de rose. 1851W. R. Greg Misc. Ess. Ser. ii. 143 Not disposed to draw a picture couleur de rose of the condition of our people.
2. In Rouge et Noir: see quots.
1867Bohn's Hand-bk. Games 343 The punters place on the Rouge, the Noir, the Couleur, or the Inverse, the sum they wish to risk. 1909Hoyle's Games Modernized 465 The other chance, the Couleur and Inverse, is decided by the colour of the first card turned up. If the colour of this card corresponds with the colour of the winning row, then Couleur wins; if it is of the opposite colour, then Inverse wins. 1957Encycl. Brit. XX. 456/1 A bet on couleur wins if the first card dealt is of the colour designating the winning row. |