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1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani vi. sig. E.ij^v The one [of two twynnes] was reed, hygh coloured and rough with heare: the other smothe.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Niij A manne maie be high coloured..and yet not blacke.

1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. xiv. 38 If the vrine..be..high-coloured, bright and cleare like lamber and not like amber.

1746 C. Macklin Henry VII i. iii. 18 Such high-colour'd Patriotism Shou'd be rewarded.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 143 Urine high-coloured.

1851 G. Brimley in Fraser's Mag. July 108/2 To translate into bald prose those high-coloured and nobly musical passages of the Prelude.

1889 B. W. Howard Open Door xiv. 252 Mariele..and Rickele quickly dispersed to regale themselves at a booth, where an old woman sold bretzels, acidified raspberry-shrub, and floury high-colored bonbons.

1908 V. Jacob Hist. Aythan Waring xxiv. 253 The high-coloured description of the assault had recalled to her mind an episode that had taken place a few months earlier in western England.

1925 F. M. Ford No More Parades 309 There were two girls who kept a tea-shop in Poperinghe... High coloured.

2005 J. M. Coetzee Slow Man xxvii. 222 An inconsequential story about being taken for a ride by the gypsies, the high-coloured gypsy woman and the handsome gypsy youth.