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 • May 16, 2024
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 • Jun. 9, 2016
She continued to paint, but now in high-colored acrylics on canvas, on an amped-up scale.
From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2012
To London last week for a "private visit" went Adolf Hitler's financial magician, clammy-handed, high-colored Dr. Hjalmar Schacht.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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