particoloured

English

Alternative forms

• particolored (US)
• parti-colored

Adjective

particoloured (comparative more particoloured, superlative most particoloured)

1. Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.
   • 1883, Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 78, page 54:

     O foolish one! this molded earth is naught;
     This particolored vault of heaven is naught;
     Our sojourn in this seat of life and death
     Is but one breath, and what is that but naught?

   • 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:

     I selected a pair of loose, dark trousers bound at the waist with a russet sash, a tunic with an open neck and large pockets, and a cloak of the true fuligin of that guild of which I am still officially a master, lined with particolored brocade.

Synonyms

• motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Derived terms

• particoloured bat
• particoloured bear

Translations

made up of sections having different colours

• Bulgarian: пъстър (bg) (pǎstǎr), разноцветен (bg) (raznocveten)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ποικίλος (poikílos)

• Latin: versicolor
• Maori: ingoingo
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-dhathach