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High-colored   Listen
adjective
High-colored  adj.  
1.
Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed.
2.
Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description.





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"High-colored" Quotes from Famous Books



... little in its essential features from other balls, save that, owing to its being Christmas Eve, the Filipino men, in accordance with some local tradition, discarded the usual black evening dress, and wore white trousers, high-colored undershirts, and camisas, or outside Chino shirts, of gauzy pina or sinamay. This is the ordinary garb of a workingman, and corresponds to the national or peasant costume of European countries; and its use signifies ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee
... with the queerest superstitions; a racy wit, smacking somewhat, of course, of the quarter-deck, or even of the forecastle; a seemingly incongruous sensibility, so that tears easily sprang to their eyes if the right chord of pathos were touched; a disposition to wear a high-colored necktie and a broad, gold watch-chain, and to observe a certain smartness in their boots and their general shore rigging; a good appetite for good food, and not a little discernment of what was good; a ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne


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