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Definition of Colours

1. Noun. A distinguishing emblem. "His tie proclaimed his school colors"

Definition of Colours

1. Noun. (plural of colour) ¹

2. Noun. (context: plurale tantum nautical) The national flag flown by a ship at sea. ¹

3. Noun. (plurale tantum) The British military ceremony of raising the flag. ¹

4. Noun. (context: sports snooker) The balls that score more than one point in snooker. Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black. ¹

5. Verb. (third-person singular of colour) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colours

1. colour [v] - See also: colour

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colours

Literary usage of Colours

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1885)
"Domitian, two more colours were added, gold and purple. Now, it is noteworthy that when there were only four colours they were thought to be highly mystic. ..."

2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"1. 1. colours injurious to health may not be used in the production of articles of food or enjoyment, if intended for sale. 2. Injurious colours ..."

3. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"Protective colours are useful so far as they conceal the animal from its enemies, ... Sexual colours are therefore useful as well, because they make the ..."

4. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"They aro frequently ornamented with combs, horns, wattles and plumes of the most diversified kinds, and are decorated with beautiful colours, all evidently ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"The theorem then is, that if an area be partitioned in any manner into areas, these can be, with four colours only, coloured in such wise that in every case ..."

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