COLORATION
Col`or*a"tion, n.
Defn: The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.
COLORATURE
Col"or*a*ture, n. Etym: [Cf. G. coloratur, fr. LL. coloratura.]
(Mus.)
Defn: Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
COLOR-BLIND
Col"or-blind, a.
Defn: Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under
Color, n.
COLORED
Col"ored, a.
1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. The lime rod, colored as the glede. Chaucer. The colored rainbow arched wide. Spenser.
2. Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.
3. Of some other color than black or white.