Read full poem →permitting tracing from the copies in their possession. In every case the
exact peculiarities of the originals have been preserved. The colouring
has been done by hand from the designs, tinted by the artist, and the
Dictionary Entry
To give something color.
In a Sentence
“We could color the walls red.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
matter colouring. colouringmatters colouringcolouring red
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Poetry examples for “colouring”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Leave colouring thy tresses, I did cry;
Now hast thou left no hairs at all to dye.
Read full poem →I have been happy—& I love the theme—
Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life—
As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Read full poem →that the poet, speaking in the character of the heretical church, was
obliged to use Protestant colouring.
Read full poem →Turkish tales were written, but for the extraordinary glamour which they
threw over contemporary readers, to whom the local colouring was new and
attractive, and who were not out of conceit with "good Monsieur
Read full poem →Each social duty and each social care;
With just yet vivid colouring portray'd
What every wife should be, what many are.