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  • noun Plural form of colouring.

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Examples

  • Others, such as colourings and flavour enhancers are purely cosmetic.

    Ben Heine - Art - The Blog 2009

  • The peculiar nature of the freshly hatched great mormon butterfly was spotted when staff noticed a striking difference between its wing colourings and other features.

    Half male, half female butterfly steals the show at Natural History Museum 2011

  • The eyes themselves were of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same; which runs through many shades and colourings like intershot silk in sunshine; which is grey, dark and light, and greenish-grey, and sometimes of the clear azure of the deep sea.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • Certain foods and additives can worsen the behaviour of some children, although guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Nice say there is no proof that cutting out fatty acids, food colourings or additives can help.

    Restricted diets can help children with ADHD, study suggests 2011

  • Unlike other flavoured water brands, our drinks will never contain concentrates, colourings or preservatives.

    The truth about health drinks 2011

  • The flirty rippled Spencers, the old fashioned grandifloras or the cupani varieties with their velvety dark colourings.

    Alys Fowler: Sweet peas 2011

  • Of course, by "natural" they mean that it is composed of "all natural ingredients" as opposed to traditional Pepsi, which is composed of artificial ingredients such as fructose corn syrup, sugar, artificial colourings, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid, and so on.

    Pepsi Natural Ilya 2009

  • It will be an experience that, with different colourings and from different perspectives, will mark an entire generation.

    Stephen Zunes: The Egyptian Struggle Could Be Protracted, but Will Emerge Victorious Stephen Zunes 2011

  • Of course, by "natural" they mean that it is composed of "all natural ingredients" as opposed to traditional Pepsi, which is composed of artificial ingredients such as fructose corn syrup, sugar, artificial colourings, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid, and so on.

    Archive 2009-04-01 xtra 2009

  • It will be an experience that, with different colourings and from different perspectives, will mark an entire generation.

    Stephen Zunes: The Egyptian Struggle Could Be Protracted, but Will Emerge Victorious Stephen Zunes 2011

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