gay-colored

The queen had with her many a fair-fashioned maid, full a hundred and four, that wore costly robes of rich, gay-colored silks.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

Those pictures were very funny, and that aquatinting and the gay-colored plates very pleasant to witness; but if we could not read the poem in those days, could we digest it in this?

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

There were mujiks with caps on their heads, and wearing checked shirts under their wide pelisses; peasants of the Volga, with blue trousers stuffed into their boots, rose-colored cotton shirts, drawn in by a cord, felt caps; a few women, habited in flowery-patterned cotton dresses, gay-colored aprons, and bright handkerchiefs on their heads.

Michael Strogoff 2003

Dinah in her white apron and gay-colored turban has brought out the baby in long clothes, spread a crimson blanket upon the grass, and there the children and nurse seat themselves.

Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

Another year passed, and down from space came the gay-colored corvette of Eban Buzbek.

The Languages of Pao Vance, Jack, 1916- 1958

Many Brahman servants were drawing water near her, and looked bright and happy in their gay-colored cotton _saris_.

Stories Worth Rereading Various

"Ph, look!" the rather silent Sarah kindled into animation at the sight of a gay-colored poster tacked to a telegraph pole along the road.

Rainbow Hill Josephine Lawrence

But they were expert at weaving the gay-colored strips in and out, and the three finished six baskets the first evening.

Chicken Little Jane Lily Munsell Ritchie

A dozen or more Thlinget women came straggling up the beach laden with the fruits of their afternoon labors: gay-colored baskets of wild strawberries, red and fragrant from the sand-dunes along the lagoon.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

Each member of the association holds a letter inclosed in an embossed and highly ornamented envelope, bound round with gay-colored ribbons and threads of gold.

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien