rainbowyadj.
/ˈreɪnbəʊi/, U.S. /ˈreɪnˌboʊi/ Resembling a rainbow in coloration; multicoloured.
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rainbow-coloured1593
rainbowed1786
rainbowy1800
irised1816
iridal1837
iridical1862
iridian1884
1800 tr. G. A. Bürger Menagerie of Gods in Museum of Wit 133 Queen Juno, who fears from rough play a mishap, Keeps peacocks with rainbowy tails.
1828 W. Taylor Historic Surv. German Poetry I. 292 A misty glory, an intangible rainbowy lustre.
1852 H. R. Reynolds Let. 21 June in Life (1898) 69 It..tosses itself in..rainbowy spray.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xi. 120 The boat was all pearly and rainbowy, like the inside of the mussel shells, and her sail was like moonshine.
1960 J. Updike Rabbit, Run 252 It wasn't so much that it dissolved the lump as made the edges nice and rainbowy.
1986 M. L. Moore Anagrams (1987) 38 Thousands of dark birds had landed..scattered their troubled squawking throughout trees and on rooftops, looking the rainbowy, shadowy black of an oil spill.
1998 A. Warner Sopranos 8 Each black, flat-bottom shoe..sported completely different, luminous, day-glo, interwoven, painted or rainbowy laces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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