varicolored

English

Etymology

vari- +‎ color +‎ -ed

Alternative forms

• varicoloured

Adjective

varicolored

1. Having a variety of colors; variegated or motley.
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, Book 2, p, 128,^[1]

     […] the habit of the greater part of them is only a wreath of Callico tyed about their heads; their mid-parts are circled with a Zone of vari-colored plad, and have Sandalls upon their feet, elsewhere being naked […]

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, 1978, Chapter 1, p. 15,^[2]

     The varicolored cloud of dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.

   • 2009, Zadie Smith, “Speaking in Tongues” in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, New York: Penguin,

     Watching Jesse Jackson in tears in Grant Park, pressed up against the varicolored American public, it seemed like he, at least, had received the answer he needed: only a many-voiced man could have spoken to that many people.

Related terms

• variegate
• variegated

Translations

having a variety of colours

• Bulgarian: разноцве́тен (bg) (raznocvéten)
• Czech: pestrobarevný m, vícebarevný m
• Esperanto: bunta (eo), mikskolora
• Georgian: ნაირფერი (nairperi), ფერად-ფერადი (perad-peradi), მრავალფერი (mravalperi)
• Italian: policromo (it)
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• Portuguese: policromo
• Russian: разноцве́тный (ru) (raznocvétnyj)
• Spanish: policromo (es)