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PARTICOLOURED
motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
(adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; “a jester dressed in motley”; “the painted desert”; “a particolored dress”; “a piebald horse”; “pied daisies”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
particoloured (comparative more particoloured, superlative most particoloured)
Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.
Synonyms
• motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also multicolored
Source: Wiktionary
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