tincts

“O King of the age, all the dyers in thy city can not turn out of hand any one of these tincts, for they know not how to dye aught but blue; yet will they not admit me amongst them, either to master or apprentice.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then quoth the King, "Go thou until the morrow when do thou come hither again;" after which he commanded his Magnates to don dresses of divers colours and different tincts whilst he wore a robe of ruddy velvet.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

The King was habited in a red coat of various tincts and his mighty men were garbed in white, and presently he enquired saying, "O Abikam, whom do I resemble and what may these my Lords and Ministers represent?"

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Then said he, "O King of the age, all the dyers in thy city can not turn out of hand any one of these tincts, for they know not how to dye aught but blue; yet will they not admit me amongst them, either to master or apprentice."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

They used paints and precious minerals of all kinds, according to the contrast of their colours, red and green and blue and yellow and what not else of all manner tincts; and each artisan wrought at his craft and each painter at his art, whilst the rest of the folk busied themselves with transporting thither vari-coloured stones.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Or as the tincts distinct brought forth by breath of the springtide) 90

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855