hued

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Gold-hued were their bridles, their poitrels of silk; so they rode through the land.

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  1. adjective Having a given hue, aspect, or character. Often used in combination: rosy-hued; dark-hued.

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  • She took one look at Morse—mahogany-hued, smelling of drink and much the worse for wear—and refused him admittance. —  FSF,March2008
  • The sea was neither so blatantly blue nor so vividly green as the other seas had been; the beach was but normally sandy-hued, and there was a delicious little fellow, clad in nothing much except seaweed, who was splashing himself with great seriousness in the middle of a shining pool. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31
  • Though fanciful tinting is somber-hued, I have growing assurance that all tends to ultimate good I dream of Promethean myth. —  Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898
  • The springtide of the north is pale with the gentle colourless sweetness of its world of primroses; the springtide of Italy is rainbow-hued, like the profusion of anemones that laugh with it in every hue of glory under every ancient wall and beside every hill-fed stream Spring in the north is a child that wakes from dreams of death; spring in the south is a child that wakes from dreams of love. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
  • An Indian blanket, orange-hued, and fringed with lead tassel-work, appeared that morning to have shielded the child from heavy showers. —  The Confidence-Man
 

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  1. Formerly also hewed; from Middle English hewed; from hue + -ed.
 

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