parti-colored

or par·ty-col·ored

[ pahr-tee-kuhl-erd ]

adjective

1. having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated:

   a parti-colored dress.

Word History and Origins

Origin of parti-colored¹

1525–35; parti variegated < Middle French ≪ Latin partītus divided, past participle of partīre to part. See party

Example Sentences

The Morgan makes a virtue of his multimedia omnivorousness, especially in the masterpiece at this show’s heart: “The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France,” an unconstrained and nearly unpunctuated travelogue in verse from 1913, self-published on a 6.5-foot-tall accordion-fold booklet, framed by the parti-colored abstract bursts of the great French-Ukrainian artist Sonia Delaunay-Terk.

From New York Times

The neutral dress sets off the sitter’s pink sash and flowers, her rouged cheeks, the yellow festoon on the stone wall and the wreath of parti-colored flowers in her hand.

From Washington Post

He orchestrated high- and low-pressure zones by contrasting loosely brushed, expansive areas with the congested central area of parti-colored dabs and dots.

From Washington Post

Viewed another way, in a characteristic trick of this masterly artist, the green plane could be a tattered curtain, with a parti-colored world — unknowable, seductive, beautiful, malignant — visible through its holes.

From New York Times

Mr. Glaser zeroed in on that part for his dramatic poster and playbill, in which a downcast angel has a parti-colored right wing, a direct quote from Albrecht Dürer’s precise, forensic “Wing of a Blue Roller.”

From New York Times