Adjective : a parti-colored dress. From Dictionary.com.
Seconds later all Juniper was illuminated by a particolored glare. From Wordnik.com. [Shadows Linger]
Hauksberg exchanged bows with a portly man wearing a particolored face. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
"A fortune!" said Sulla, holding up one of the particolored stones the locals called lychnites. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
He was dressed in a dark cerise tunic with particolored hose and forest-green boots with pointed toes. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The city below the hill was particolored, the white of new marble and the honey color of ancient marble. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
I closed my eyes, looking at the particolored swirl of patterns that immediately appeared behind my lids. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Men robed in particolored blankets poured from the buildings around, screaming and waving ... swords and clubs?. From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
The particolored rocks jut out in great square blocks, which, in summer, are usually tufted with grass or flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
He took me inside, where my fine clothes were taken away, and I. was dressed in the usual particolored prison uniform. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
He wore a white cap with a blood-red feather, a short cloth-of-gold cape, particolored hose -- light green and peach -- and forest-green boots. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
You'll carry a kicky little purse made from a humanely-harvested box-turtle's shell on a quietly assertive strap of particolored faux Sillystring. From Wordnik.com. [Mayor Bloomberg, Buy Those Handguns] Reference
Three gigantic fountains sprayed particolored water into the air above a rhinestone-studded reflecting pool with a mosaic of Ann Margaret on the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Last Drop]
On the monitors, gene sequences continued to flow in twinned spiraling streams, the four rivers of Eden transforming into a wavering, particolored snake. From Wordnik.com. [THE RIVERS OF EDEN by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold | Fiction | Futurismic] Reference
When they finally managed to straighten things out, Maheal's plum-colored doublet was shredded, and his particolored hose of citrine and puce were ruined. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
He was a lanky, sandy-haired youth, dressed lavishly but not tastefully in a sapphire - and ruby-studded particolored doublet with intricately carved ivory buttons. From Wordnik.com. [And Other Tales Of Valdemar]
Then came more stones, storms of them; crouching low and pulling his particolored toga further over his head, Asellio ran down the steps and headed instinctively for the temple of Vesta. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Her hair was russet, caught up in a fantastic headdress of gold net and pearls, and her gown was particolored velvet in fiery hues, embellished with jewels and trimmed with costly green vair. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
I saw whole board fences so thickly tufted and bearded with a rich, particolored mosaic of lichens that from base-board to cope-board there was scarcely a square foot of the original wood to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
The ecoregion harbors several threatened species, including the endangered red panda (Ailurus fulgens), takin (Budorcas taxicolor), serow (Capricornis sumatraensis), and particolored squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger). From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests] Reference
"I have seen him of all colors; blue, white, black, and particolored," said the captain. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilot] Reference
But to Mr. In and Mr. Out this event was merely a particolored iridescent segment of a whirring, spinning world. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
Page 183 writhed in and out of them, as if endued with a serpent vitality, a continual succession of particolored fires. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I] Reference
The glamour of youth enveloped his particolored rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
And, for my shoes as well as for my garments, I chose particolored materials with the most startling or languorous combinations of unusual dyes. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
At the back of this ricketty plank fence, with its particolored tatters of damp and torn advertisements, lay a considerable space of waste ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark Of Cain] Reference
Only the particolored rock now remained to protect the boy, but as the Elk lowered his horns again he rolled over dead and the whole earth trembled. From Wordnik.com. [The Jicarilla Genesis] Reference
He goes over and touches Ted on a particolored arm -- the latter is dressed as a red and gilt harlequin -- and feels the muscles he touches twitch under his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Young People's Pride] Reference
It inconsequentially beachball to get workmanship, but he banter dimocarpus bluntly unaccommodating than particolored, and he can get brigandine patriarchic on the bus. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
They lacked the art of writing, although they possessed a highly developed system of mnemonic aids in the form of curiously knotted and particolored strings called quipus. From Wordnik.com. [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference
Being forced to wait, he sat now, preternaturally stiff, perched on a heap of trunks, clutching a broken dress-suit case which had been re-enforced with particolored strings. From Wordnik.com. [The Varmint] Reference
As the groups of women walk about, their toe-rings and ankle-ornaments jingle against the marble, and their particolored raiment and barbarous gewgaws look curiously out of place here. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
I gazed with unquiet eye upon the sarcophagi in the angles of the room, upon the varying figures of the drapery, and upon the writhing of the particolored fires in the censer overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I] Reference
I'm surprised there weren't a few frames of Jerry Hall vomiting particolored nouvelle cuisine tidbits into an upended Napoleon hat in that munchkin footage. stevedew77 Posted 11/19/2009 16: 50: 11. From Wordnik.com. [News from TV.com] Reference
"Listen -- do you like me?" says the particolored harlequin and all the sharp leaves of the hedge begin to titter as wind runs over them at one of the oldest and least sensible questions in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Young People's Pride] Reference
That day less than ever was his attention turned upon the familiar, habitual surroundings, the stage, the noise, all the familiar, uninteresting, particolored herd of spectators in the packed theater. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Celts, and particolored Swiss. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots] Reference
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