vari-coloured, varicoloured, a.
(ˈvɛərɪˌkʌləd)
Also 7, 9 vary-colour'd, 9 variecoloured.
[f. L. vari-us various a. + coloured ppl. a.]
Of various or different colours; variegated in colour.
| 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 115 They adorn it according to fancy; sometimes with ribbons, sometimes with streamers of varicoloured Taffata. 1684 tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts lxii. 184 Vary-colour'd, many-coated, canvas-wearing cloak-carriers. 1822 New Monthly Mag. IV. 486 The vari⁓coloured clouds that hang..upon its sides. 1830 Tennyson Arab. Nts. 57 A walk with vary-colour'd shells. 1841 Catlin N. Amer. Ind. xxiv. (1844) I. 198 A profusion of vari-coloured beads. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 73 All around the edge of the darkness ran an incessant tangle of vari-coloured lightnings. |
b. fig. Different, diverse, diversified.
| 1855 Browning Cleon 161 My works, in all these vari⁓coloured kinds. 185. Lowell Leg. Brittany ii. xxxii, Where fifty voices in one strand did twist Their varicoloured tones. |