rainbowedadj.
/ˈreɪnbəʊd/, U.S. /ˈreɪnˌboʊd/ Coloured like a rainbow; surrounded or illuminated with a rainbow or rainbows.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > as rainbow
rainbow-coloured1593
rainbowed1786
rainbowy1800
irised1816
iridal1837
iridical1862
iridian1884
1786 New Haven-Gaz. 12 Oct. 270/1 O'er their limbs instinctive lightnings run; Or rainbow'd pinions lift them to the sun.
1793 T. Dwight Amer. Poems I. 55 From western skies, a cloud of glory came..; Rainbow'd with fire, and warm'd with glowing gold.
1830 E. Roberts Oriental Scenes 210 Joyous it is..To quaff the honied and rainbowed dew.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. i. iii. 59 See him stand Before the altar, like a rainbowed saint.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxiii. 292 Four furious volcanoes..spreading a blinding rainbowed noonday to the furthest confines of that valley.
1918 Washington Post 16 July 5/2 First was shown the rainbowed splendor of Niagara.
1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 151 She had reported Blowitt to psychiatric for his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde.
1993 Etc Montréal No. 24. 58/2 A motorized, life-size bridal gown made of iridescent mylar, slowly rotates in the spotlights, shedding rainbowed glints of color into the prevailing murk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.1786