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单词 turn-coat-coloured
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turn-coat-coloured
b. transf. applied to anything that changes in appearance or colour. Also turn-coat-coloured.
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the world > matter > colour > change of colour > [adjective]
turn-coat-coloured1567
verse-coloured1607
the world > time > change > [noun] > one who or that which changes
alterera1525
turncoat1567
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 11 This is a maruellous turncote, for that it doth conforme it self to all settes and dispositions of the Ayre.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 12 b Kaman the stone may well be called a turncote, for that it is now blacke, now white, now shame~fast & blushing.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 113 Of a changeable colour, betwixt white, greene, browne & yellow, for which occasion some haue called it versi-color Chamæleon, that is, a Turne-coate-coloured Chamæleon.
extracted from turncoatn.adj.
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