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- adjective Archaic form of
coloured . - verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
colour .
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Examples
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You will find those made with Ribband the dearest, except the ½ doz morocco colour'd resembling gimp. which you will find cost you 5d pr pair, the Ribband 4 1/2d, the half round black and morrocco,
Letter 48 2009
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For all this, she had nothing about her of the paint'd Harlot, nor did she attempt the pert Gaiety of a Frenchwoman with colour'd Ribands, Flow'rs, &c.
A Madison Avenue shoe space. Ann Althouse 2008
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The "fancied line" and the "colour'd words" (lines 23-24) are renounced, but they are still present in the syntactical setting of their renunciation.
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_Mercury_, but in another manner and kind, whereby the Stars manifest a separation in fix'd and unfix'd, in colour'd and uncolour'd things.
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(Kiss'd by the breath of heaven) seems colour'd by its skies.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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Wright, a shoemaker by trade, has a red nose, and a crooked finger; Had on, an ozenbrigs shirt, and breeches of the same, and a dark colour'd coat, with a large cape.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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Buttons on it, dark colour'd Kersey Jacket, a Cotton Jacket, old Leather
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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Mortar, and make it in Knots or Shells in a Mould or Moss, with rubbing it thro 'an Hair Sieve: The Red must be colour'd with
Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales
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He managed the property of the two children with great care and fidelity, keeping a scrupulous account in a "marble colour'd folio Book" of every penny received or expended in their behalf and making a yearly report to the general court of his stewardship.
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth
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Osburn, about 20 or 21 years of Age, red fac'd, very fat and rough skin'd, about 5 Feet 5 Inches high, a little mark'd with the Small-Pox; She had on a purple colour'd Stuff Jacket flower'd with green and white, a blue thick Kersey Petticoat, blue
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