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discolouration

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English

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Etymology

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From discolour +‎ -ation.

Noun

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discolouration (countable and uncountable, plural discolourations)

  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of discoloration
    • 1938, The Homestead, numbers 1170-1196, page 14:
      [] one tablet completely sterilises a quart of water, tastelessly, without discolouration or odour.
    • 2018 March 6, Lili Loofbourow, “The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously”, in The Guardian[1]:
      We detect wrinkles, discolourations and pores, and subtract them from a woman’s beauty in ways we don’t if that same face is presented to us as masculine.