单词 | septicoloured |
释义 | > as lemmassepticoloured septicoloured adj. Brit. , U.S. of seven colours. [Compare French septicolor (noun) kind of Tangara (1791; compare quot. 1825), (adjective) having seven colours (1842).] ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > seven colours septicoloured1825 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. iv. 284 I was in hopes to have found the Grande Gobe Mouche of Buffon, and the septicoloured Tangara. 1865 G. Grote Plato I. i. 62 (note) x A wheel painted with the seven prismatic colours and made to revolve rapidly, will look white, but it is still really septi-coloured. 1975 D. Le Vay tr. Colette Looking Backwards 88 The septicoloured miracle [sc. a rainbow] reasserts itself; facing the setting sun, it straddles peaks and valleys. The rain, which created it, obliterates it. < as lemmas |
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