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  • noun Alternative spelling of coloration.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun appearance with regard to color
  • noun the timbre of a musical sound
  • noun choice and use of colors (as by an artist)

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Examples

  • This is the original jabiru, whilst the other species are imitations, having the same head and neck colouration, which is the reason they were given the same name.

    Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria 2011

  • This is the original jabiru, whilst the other species are imitations, having the same head and neck colouration, which is the reason they were given the same name.

    Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria 2011

  • The dolphin appears to be healthy and normal other than its colouration, which is quite beautiful.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • Firstly, I suspect that some of those sheep have been photoshoped so there are more sheep of non white colouration than there actually are.

    That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Secondly, parse as they might, they can't turn a scientific "trick" into guile, nor make a negative colouration stick to the phrase "hide the decline" when the CRU folks themselves have published papers on it.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • After all, disfiguration, of the physical and mental variety, are often byproducts of conflict and the greater the colouration the greater the sense of victory.

    Elliot Worsell: UFC's Jones and Evans: Good Friends, Better Enemies Elliot Worsell 2011

  • He wrote some great short stories in SF and fantasy and horror and there's scarcely a stinker among them, even when the SF elements feel tacked on or redundant or protective colouration for the fantastic.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • After all, disfiguration, of the physical and mental variety, are often byproducts of conflict and the greater the colouration the greater the sense of victory.

    Elliot Worsell: UFC's Jones and Evans: Good Friends, Better Enemies Elliot Worsell 2011

  • As he was to do throughout the show, the pianist oscillated between the grand piano and Fender Rhodes, mostly playing the latter sparingly for soul, funk and blues-infusing colouration.

    Jason Moran – review John Fordham 2010

  • You might think so look at the implied colouration but a writer can easily come unstuck trying to blend the two.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010

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