| 释义 | particolouredparticoloredadj.Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: party adj., party adv., coloured adj.Etymology:  <  either party adj. or party adv. + coloured adj. Compare party adj. 1, parti- comb. form1.The α.  forms   are very frequent in the 18th cent., and party-coloured   is the only spelling listed in Johnson (1755). However, in the 19th cent. β.  forms   become more frequent, and are now more usual both in Britain and North America.the world > matter > colour > variegation > 			[adjective]		 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > 			[adjective]		 > having specific markingsβ. a1592    R. Greene  		(1594)	 sig. G2  				Iuno..mounted on her parti-coloured coach.1600    J. Pory tr.  J. Leo Africanus   ii. 72  				This kinde of particoloured marble.1688    R. Holme   iii. 127/2  				A Barber is always known by his Cheque parti-coloured Apron.1706    J. Addison   i. vi  				The particolour'd gay Alcove.1736    A. Pope  iii. 155  				Particolour'd troops, a shining train, Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain.1775    J. Ash  Suppl.  				Tambouring, the act of ornamenting with a kind of particoloured needlework.1822    W. Irving  xxi. 183  				Making garlands of parti-coloured rags.1845    P. J. Bailey  		(ed. 2)	 214  				Double and triple particoloured suns.1869    J. C. Atkinson   				Crewel, to cover a ball or other object with particoloured worsted worked in a peculiar manner.1879    G. Meredith  II. xiii. 275  				The Pope's parti-coloured body guard.1893    E. B. Heaton in   23 Nov.  				The slopes..are parti-colored.1922    R. Leighton  285  				All colours [of Pekingese] allowable, red, fawn, black, black and tan, sable, brindle, white and parti-coloured.1952    V. G. Childe  xi. 219  				Hand-made particoloured black and red vases of ‘Khirbet Kerak ware’.1988    G. Adair  45  				He..slept..like Harlequin in parti-coloured pantaloons, the right leg dark, the left one light.2000     No. 17. 63/2  				The codpiece varied from the particolored covering as early as 1370, to the three-piece unit of the Tudor and Elizabethan courts.α.  1530     Gen. xxx. f. xlijv  				And he toke out that same daye the he gootes that were partie & of dyuerse coloures, & all the she gootes that were spotted and partie coloured. 1535     Gen. xxx. F  				The speckled and partye coloured goates, and all the spotted and partye coloured kyddes. 1577    B. Googe tr.  C. Heresbach   iii. f. 139  				The pollicie of Iacob..in procuring of partie coloured Lambes. 1630    tr.  G. Botero  		(rev. ed.)	 143  				A Guard of Swisse, attired in partie-coloured-Cloth. 1684    N. Luttrell Diary in   		(1857)	 I. 296  				The new serjeants..putt on their party coloured robes. 1693    J. Edwards  I. v. 178  				A rich Partie-coloured Vest. 1712    J. Addison  No. 265. ¶5  				I looked..on this little party-coloured Assembly, as upon a Bed of Tulips. 1805    W. Wordsworth   iv. 31  				Party-coloured garments gay. 1852    R. S. Surtees   xii. lxxi. 401  				Broad-backed partycoloured jockeys. 1875    J. R. Lowell   iv. i  				All party-coloured threads the weaver Time Sets in his web. 1953    Z. Cope  xi. 77  				He discovered at once they [sc. the pictures] represented solid bodies, when to that time he considered them only as party-coloured planes, or surfaces diversified with variety of paint.the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > 			[adjective]		1591    M. Sutcliffe  ix. 195  				Would it not be a parti-coloured religion..that should be made by men of motly coats? 1622    S. Ward  110  				Their delights..particoloured & spotted with mixture of sorrow. c1710    M. Prior  12  				In life party-colour'd, half pleasure, half care. 1803     2 96  				By their quaintness and party-coloured learning. 1885    R. L. Stevenson  & F. Stevenson  184  				He got to bed with these parti-coloured thoughts. 2002     		(Nexis)	 22 Mar.  				The academy, with its military discipline and bullying, is a violent microcosm of ‘particoloured Peruvian society’.Compounds 1901    E. R. Lankester in   8 165  				Æluropus must be removed from association with the Bears..and is no longer to be spoken of as ‘the Parti-coloured Bear’, but as ‘the Great Panda’. 1923     2 Nov. p. xii/2  				The carnivora are represented by a tiger, a hyena, a ‘parti-colored bear’ (Aeluropus), [etc.].This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).<  adj.1530 |