high-colored

[ hahy-kuhl-erd ]

adjective

1. deep in color; vivid.
2. flushed or red; florid:

   a high-colored complexion.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high-colored¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

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

Related Words

• glowing
• rose-colored