Adjective : a parti-colored dress. From Dictionary.com.
The parti-colored picturesque dress had been a joy to. From Wordnik.com. [Mae Madden] Reference
Never use a parti-colored damask for the dinner-table. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
That parti-colored crow is as hard on Dean as he is on me. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Pewter Gods]
I bet there is a lovely, parti-colored sky on the planet where you live. From Wordnik.com. [Dems Letting GOP Chase After Shiny 'Bipartisanship' Ball] Reference
His cranium was ornamented with a huge mass of the same parti-colored hair. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
I'd found one in a parti-colored basket of heirloom cherries and saved the seed. From Wordnik.com. [The Accidental Hybrid: Discovering New Tomatoes] Reference
He extended the finger toward her, the tip and nail coated with the parti-colored powder. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Jill raves over some parti-colored striped petunias, hot pink and white, white and dark purple. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference
Nevertheless, among the mass of pale blue tam-o'-shanters, her parti-colored one was very prominent. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
She grimly ignored the parti-colored hair as she did the natural exuberance of her grandson's spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund] Reference
"I rather look upon the mountains in their parti-colored vests, than when dressed in simple green," I replied. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes in Switzerland] Reference
On her head she wore a hat styled a "what-is-it," towering many feet in height and flaunting parti-colored plumes. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
This great display of fluttering pennants and parti-colored squares conveys to the initiated the following sentence. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
In fact, there was one such Inspector in his black-and-yellow doublet and parti-colored hose just ahead of Kellen now. From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
Then he saw how she was dressed, in a long coat, black covered with shiny six-pointed parti-colored stars, like a rainbow snowfall. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
He would put a fool's cap on our head and dress us up in the parti-colored robes of a harlequin for the nations of the world to laugh at. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
All the people appear in the temples in white garments, but the priest's vestments are parti-colored, and both the work and colors are wonderful. From Wordnik.com. [Utopia] Reference
For here are gloriously sugary images: great rows of parti-colored doughnuts slathered in frosting; platters of doughnuts lavishly coated with sprinkles -- yum!. From Wordnik.com. [The Donut Chef] Reference
They are passed to each person half filled with water, placed on a parti-colored napkin with a dessert plate underneath, when the dessert is placed upon the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
His flaring scarfs were viewed as being almost scandalous, very much as Longfellow's parti-colored waistcoats were regarded when he first came to Harvard as a professor. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Bark exfoliating in large scales, leaving parti-colored areas. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
She wears a knitted shawl and a parti-colored kerchief on her head. From Wordnik.com. [Hadda Pada] Reference
He was sitting in a parti-colored, wadded dressing-gown, rather dirty and frayed, however. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
I gathered, wonderingly, a few of the larger clusters of parti-colored fruit and patiently waited. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
York, and it drew into the station, through the whirl and dance of parti-colored lights everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Bohemia] Reference
Truth is clear and single, but the lights are parti-colored and refracted in the prism of hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Anyhow somebody went over to where there's some parti-colored cliffs, where the sea comes away inland. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Importance] Reference
He was fond of brilliant and parti-colored clothes, a taste which survives in the Highlander's costume. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
This young woman had draped herself in a long parti-colored shawl and she held a tambourine in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Fantasy and Fact] Reference
One blood alley, two chinees, a parti-colored glass agate, three pewees, and unnumbered drab-colored marbles. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Diary of a Real Boy] Reference
The priests set up a falsetto chant, the banner-bearers lifted their staves, and the parti-colored mass moved down on them. From Wordnik.com. [The Readjustment] Reference
The earlier parti-colored bark changes to chalky white on old trunks, by which the tree is recognized from a great distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
In the lap of each child lay a tiny china doll, a long string, and a box of what, at first sight, appeared to be parti-colored rags. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen] Reference
Four huge wheels held the body of this vehicle, from which rose posts striped like barbers 'poles, decorated with parti-colored curtains. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference
A woman paraded a bunch of toy balloons in carmine and green and purple, like a huge bunch of parti-colored grapes inverted above her head. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
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