varicoloured
Britishadjective
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Other articles of manufacture were blue-flowered cups and saucers, and varicoloured teapots.
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Bones, beads, sparkling metals, soft-tinted sea shells, and all of them blended with the varicoloured paints that he has compounded in nature's mortar.
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The gay butterflies when they first expand their varicoloured wings and float in air, seem not more joyous than the Parisians have been during the last two days of sunshine.
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Their slender, varicoloured tentacles whipped out; the giant iridescent bubbles climbed over the cadavers.
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The varicoloured waistcoat, the sparkling studs and cravat pins, the bright, soft silk tie, were all subdued from their ordinary too-vivid effect by the grace with which they were carried.
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