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Multicolored   /mˌəltikˈələrd/   Listen
Multicolored

adjective
1.
Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.  Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured.  "The painted desert" , "A particolored dress" , "A piebald horse" , "Pied daisies"






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"Multicolored" Quotes from Famous Books



... too—immobile in the strange, yet peaceful, summer night. He was standing on a grassy plain, and the plain spread out on either hand to promontories of little trees. Before him, the land sloped gently upward, and was covered with multicolored flowers that twinkled like microcosmic stars. In the distance, the lights of a village showed. To his right, a riotous green-rose bush bloomed, and beneath it Zarathustra sat, wagging ...
— The Servant Problem • Robert F. Young

... pointed. Directly ahead was a small shelf. Rick moved to Scotty's side and saw the dark opening of a cave. Next to the opening was a small octopus. As they approached he changed color, trying to imitate the multicolored ...
— The Wailing Octopus • Harold Leland Goodwin

... sky. It was a city fantastic with cubed domes, spires, and aerial bridges and flying buttresses. Tunnel-like streets, flanked on either side by shining metallic ramps and runways, stretched endlessly to the vanishing point. Great shafts of multicolored light probed huge streamers and ellipses above the ...
— The Street That Wasn't There • Clifford Donald Simak

... near the end of the day now and the phenomena of the tropical sunset served to add to the desolation of the scene. Tiny clouds rode in the sky, multicolored from the sun, for all the world as if painted upon the blue above. The west was livid with scarlet and orange flame, and on the hammock the tops of the trees were ...
— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen

... Space Cadets had been given a special three-day holiday to see the trials, and the Academy buildings were decorated with multicolored flags and pennants. A festive atmosphere surrounded ...
— Treachery in Outer Space • Carey Rockwell and Louis Glanzman



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