Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Brightness or strength of color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Brightness or strength of color.
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- noun Brightness or strength of colour.
Etymologies
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See orient.
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Examples
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Colours of an oriency, that mock the pencil of the most exquisite artist; and with which their native beauty, perfume, fragrancy, and taste, gratify and entertain more senses at once, than does any sublunary object in all unvitiated nature besides. "
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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