many-coloured

English

Alternative forms

• manycoloured, manicoloured
• many-colored, manycolored, manicolored (Canada, US)

Etymology

From many +‎ colour +‎ -ed.

Adjective

many-coloured (not comparable)

1. Composed of a great number of different colours; multicoloured; variegated.
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 281:

     In the hollow, a large mezerian bush gave life to the green expanse; the anemones opened their many-coloured petals to the sun; the tulips were just opening; and there seemed scarcely any need of greater variety, or of sweeter smells, than those which the hyacinths afforded.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     On it came, and with it came the glorious blinding cloud of many-coloured light, and stood before us for a space, turning, as it seemed to us, slowly round and round, and then, accompanied by its attendant pomp of sound, passed away I know not whither.