Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name in Mexico of several plants having bright-colored seeds which are sometimes used by the natives for beads, especially of Erythrina coralloides, a small thorny tree, with trifoliate leaves, belonging to the Fabaceæ.
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Floral edibles such as jamaica (hibiscus flowers), tila (linden flowers), colorin (coral-tree flowers) and flor de calabaza (squash blossoms) have been, and still are, Mexican market staples and important sources of food and beverages.
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Floral edibles such as jamaica (hibiscus flowers), tila (linden flowers), colorin (coral-tree flowers) and flor de calabaza (squash blossoms) have been, and still are, Mexican market staples and important sources of food and beverages.
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Has been colorin teh hair forebber….ai haz vowed to let it go completely gray wen ai am 50.
So der I was on mah porches - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Floral edibles such as jamaica (hibiscus flowers), tila (linden flowers), colorin (coral-tree flowers) and flor de calabaza (squash blossoms) have been, and still are, Mexican market staples and important sources of food and beverages.
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Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock -
When the Frost is on the Punkin... Gumbo Lily 2007
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Use of flowers in Mexican cuisine. flor de colorin, flor de calabaza, jamaica etc.
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Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock -
Archive 2007-09-01 Gumbo Lily 2007
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Is a pictur 'that no painter has the colorin' to mock15
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'I want the bedroom walls to be rough plaster,' that's what she's went and wrote, 'of a pale yellow colorin' Mr. Badgely will choose.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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"I hear you tried to assassinate him with a mop," says I. "I-- I was not quite myself," says Gerald, colorin 'still more.
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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