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PARTI-COLOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parti-color mean?
• PARTI-COLOR (verb)
The verb PARTI-COLOR has 1 sense:
1. make motley; color with different colors
Familiarity information: PARTI-COLOR used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make motley; color with different colors
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
motley; parti-color
Hypernyms (to "parti-color" is one way to...):
color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
The coat comes in solid black, liver or red or parti-color combinations of white with black, liver or red markings or ticking.
(English Cocker Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
Colors include fawn, sand, chestnut, silver and steel blue, black, tan and parti-color.
(Chihuahua, NCI Thesaurus)
The coat comes in buff, black, other solid colors, black-and-tan, and parti-color (white with black, white with buff or red, white with black and tan points).
(American Cocker Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
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