versicoloured, a.
(ˈvɜːsɪˌkʌləd)
[f. as prec. + coloured ppl. a. Cf. the earlier verse-coloured.]
Changing or varying in colour; iridescent; also, of various colours, variegated.
| 1721 Bailey, Versicoloured, changing Colour, of sundry and changeable Colours. 1822–7 Good Study Med. (1829) I. 421 Under these circumstances, the bile has at different times..been found..whitish, black, green, eruginous, and versicoloured. 1846 Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 467/1 If thou hadst enveloped him in thy versicoloured and cloud⁓like vestiary. 1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester III. xxii. 246 A rocket..drops its versicoloured shower. |
| fig. 1867 Visct. Strangford Selection (1869) I. 135 Such views..on the subject of the versicoloured policy of France in the East. |
Hence versicolouredness, ‘the being of changeable Colours’ (Bailey, 1727, vol. II).