ˈmulti-colour, n. and a.
[multi- 2, 3.]
1. a. The condition of being many-coloured.
| a 1849 Poe Landscape Garden Wks. 1864 IV. 340 In the multiform of the tree, and in the multicolor of the flower. |
b. pl. Many or various colours.
| 1901 Daily Chron. 14 Dec. 8/4 Bars of applied silk done in multi-colours. |
2. a. attrib. Applied to printing in many colours or a machine for such printing. b. adj. = next.
| 1881 Macm. Mag. XLIV. 388 Hawkweed topped all the multi-colour weeds. 1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Multi⁓color Printing Press, a chromatic printing press. 1888 Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Multicolour letters.—Characters cut in separate pieces for working in two or more colours. |