noncolourfast

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English

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ colourfast.

Adjective

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noncolourfast (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of noncolorfast
    • 2002, Peter Marshall, Alec Ryrie, The Beginnings of English Protestantism, page 37:
      Historians who work with the phenomenon of religion in early modern England seem sometimes to want to keep the theology and sociology of the topic apart, like white and noncolourfast garments in the wash-cycles of meaningful historical explanation.