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quadricoloured en · ADJ

Etymology

From quadri- + coloured.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative spelling of quadricolored.
    • The proposition, in fact, amounted to this, were they prepared at once to sacrifice their constitution, valuable as it was on account of its antiquity, not to the tricolour of Lafayette and Co., but to the quadricoloured flag of the firm of Lee, Bousfield and Co.? 1831, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 139:
    • The dorsal pelage is distinctly quadricoloured instead of tricoloured as in G. variegata. 1968, Eugene Raymond Hall, J. R. Tamsitt, A New Subspecies of the Red Fig-eating Bat from Puerto Rico:
    • Their leaves are particoloured like a tartan, and, although called tricolours, they are often, in fact, quadricoloured. 1975, Ippolito Pizzetti, Henry Cocker, Flowers: a Guide for Your Garden, volume 2, page 971: