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discolouration en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English discolour Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English discolouration From discolour + -ation.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative spelling of discoloration.
   alt of discoloration
   • […] one tablet completely sterilises a quart of water, tastelessly, without discolouration or odour. 1938, The Homestead, numbers 1170-1196, page 14:
   • We detect wrinkles, discolourations and pores, and subtract them from a woman’s beauty in ways we don’t if that same face is presented to us as masculine. 2018 March 6, Lili Loofbourow, “The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously”, in The Guardian:

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