high-colored
Americanadjective
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deep in color; vivid.
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flushed or red; florid.
a high-colored complexion.
Etymology
Origin of high-colored
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Pavilion, racks of high-colored signboards were mirrored in the polished stone floors.
From New York Times
The customer who’d spoken was called George Boatwright, a high-colored and truculent boatman whom Mr. Polstead had had to throw out of the Trout half a dozen times; but he was a fair man, and he’d never spoken roughly to Malcolm.
From Literature
“Now that is a thing I have not heard for a long time,” she said sharply, and Wang Lung saw a handsome, shrewish, high-colored face looking out at him.
From Literature
A 1927 Cubist still life, “Percolator,” done almost entirely in beiges and grays, resurfaces, intact but high-colored and festooned with words, in the 1951 “Owh! In San Pao.”
From New York Times
The President is a sturdy man of thickening athletic build, with blond hair and a reddish blond goatee that diminishes up his high-colored cheeks into blond peach fuzz and then asserts itself anew as bright blond bushy eyebrows over long platinum lashes.
From New York Times
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