colouring

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Noun

colouring (countable and uncountable, plural colourings)

1. (British, Canada) Alternative spelling of coloring

Adjective

colouring (comparative more colouring, superlative most colouring)

1. Of something that provides colour.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 168:

     He soon exhausted pleasure, and then reasoned upon it: he soon exhausted it, because he wanted that colouring enthusiasm which creates more than half of what it enjoys;...

Verb

colouring

1. present participle and gerund of colour