Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having parts, sections, or areas colored differently from each other; pied.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
party-colored .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly. Same as
party-colored .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cellophane sachets of what looks like parti-colored popcorn from a crypt, promising to scent your home, your clothes, your life.
A New Whiff on Potpourri William L. Hamilton 2011
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But his retinue,—that squalid, sordid, parti-colored band of vacant, dull-faced filth and viciousness—was writhing over the land, and he and they seemed almost crouching underneath the scorpion lash of one tall skeleton, that looked like Death, and the twisted woman whom men call Pain.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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For two or more centuries America has marched proudly in the van of human hatred,—making bonfires of human flesh and laughing at them hideously, and making the insulting of millions more than a matter of dislike,—rather a great religion, a world war-cry: Up white, down black; to your tents, O white folk, and world war with black and parti-colored mongrel beasts!
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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In fact, there was one such Inspector in his black-and-yellow doublet and parti-colored hose just ahead of Kellen now.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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I'd found one in a parti-colored basket of heirloom cherries and saved the seed.
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I bet there is a lovely, parti-colored sky on the planet where you live.
Dems Letting GOP Chase After Shiny 'Bipartisanship' Ball 2010
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I'd found one in a parti-colored basket of heirloom cherries and saved the seed.
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I'd found one in a parti-colored basket of heirloom cherries and saved the seed.
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Jill raves over some parti-colored striped petunias, hot pink and white, white and dark purple.
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For some, Ken Kesey's parti-colored bus may be a hideous reminder of national unraveling, but for Coca-Cola it seemed a perfect promotional instrument for its "Fruitopia" line, and the company has proceeded to send replicas of the bus around the country to generate interest in the counterculturally themed beverage.
jinglebelljosie commented on the word parti-colored
refering to clothing or hose that consisted of two different colors or fabrics divided vertically down the center of the costume. For example, parti-colored hose would have one blue leg and one green leg.
August 19, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word parti-colored
That would truly be hose of a different color.
January 4, 2009