coloration

English

Alternative forms

• colorification (dated)
• colouration (British)

Etymology

From French coloration, from Latin colōrātiō.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

coloration (countable and uncountable, plural colorations)

1. The act or art of coloring.
2. The quality of being colored.
3. (music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
4. (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
5. Political tendency.
   • 1968, Bernard Cosman, Robert Jack Huckshorn, Republican Politics, page 88:

     Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents.

   • 2014, Kevin P. Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition, page 175:

     The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration.

Derived terms

• obliterative coloration
• warning coloration

Translations

act of coloring

• Bulgarian: оцветяване n (ocvetjavane)
• French: coloration (fr) f
• Galician: coloración (gl) f
• Italian: coloratura f

quality of being colored

• Bulgarian: окраска (bg) f (okraska)

notational device

ornamental division

See also

• diatonic
• chromatic
• coloratura

French

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Noun

coloration f (plural colorations)

1. color; coloring; coloration
   • 1827, Elisabeth Celnart, Art de la toilette‎^[1]:

     On voit que je ne suis point au nombre des partisans de la coloration des cheveux.

     You can see that I'm not one of those people who's partial to a coloring of the hair

Further reading

• “coloration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.