parti-coloured

/ ˈpɑːtɪˌkʌləd /

adjective

1. having different colours in different parts; variegated

Word History and Origins

Origin of parti-coloured¹

C16 parti, from (obsolete) party of more than one colour, from Old French: striped, from Latin partīre to divide

Example Sentences

Gentlemen showed their legs to an equally startling extent Their clothes were parti-coloured.

From Literature

Harder to cope When things got steeper, and a mountain cat With parti-coloured pelt, light on its feet, In a trice was in my face and stayed like that, Barring my way, encouraging retreat.

From Slate

Freed from job and family for a few wastrel days of coffee drinking, novel reading and justice dispensing, Foley could see grey quotidian as parti-coloured pageant, much as Joyce needed to get to Trieste to savour Dublin, or Proust needed to hole up in a darkened, cork-lined room to nail the Parisian beau monde.

From The Guardian

But indented chiefs do not change their fashion, although many saw-teeth sometimes take the place of the three or four strong points of early arms, and parti-coloured shields whose party line is indented never lose the bold zig-zag.

From Project Gutenberg

The Bounding Brothers threw themselves into knots, spun themselves into parti-coloured tops, turned double and treble somersaults, built human pyramids, and generally behaved as if they had no bones in any permanent positions throughout their entire bodies.

From Project Gutenberg