单词 | recolour |
释义 | recolourrecolorv. 1. transitive. To colour (a thing) again or differently. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] dyea1000 huec1000 litc1230 coloura1325 paint?c1335 infecta1398 taint1471 recolour1566 becolour1567 tinct1594 colorate1599 colourize1611 tincture1616 tint1791 encolour1850 pigment1896 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlvi. f. 278 [She] began to recolour her bleake and pale face, with a vermelion teint and Roseal rudde. 1786 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 4) I. v. 166 I and better judges conjecture that it [sc. a portrait of Henry VII at Strawberry-hill] was recoloured by Reubens himself. 1828 A. M. Porter Coming Out in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps II. 205 Expectation had re-coloured her cheeks. 1839 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) II. ix. 162 That they must recolour all their geological maps. 1887 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing (1892) 3 If it is necessary to recolour any part, let the first coating dry before beginning. 1940 Times 11 Apr. 9/6 Commander King-Hall's proposal to recolour the maps of the world..would..be hardly fair to the map-makers. 2008 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 3 Jan. c1 She gets..her hair recolored every three to four weeks. ΚΠ 1814 Ld. Byron Lara i. xiii. 226 The swarthy blush recolours in his cheeks, His lip resumes its red. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1566 |
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