Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See party-color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To make motley or parti-colored.

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

  • verb make motley; color with different colors

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Examples

  • The soaring vertical slabs of parti-color stone that surround the bookend fireplaces?

    Off the Beaten Track Richard Nalley 2010

  • Will Ferrell, one of the biggest stars of the moment, recently was captured in Us out with his niece and nephew, wearing wrinkled clothes and a parti-color beard that would not have seemed out of place on a homeless man.

    Fallen Stars 2007

  • Will Ferrell, one of the biggest stars of the moment, recently was captured in Us out with his niece and nephew, wearing wrinkled clothes and a parti-color beard that would not have seemed out of place on a homeless man.

    Fallen Stars 2007

  • Their skins were still an odd parti-color — brown where they had been burned by the sun, lighter where they had been covered by their clothing — but in time it would all fade to the proper pale shade of slaves who lived their whole lives in the World Without Sun.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • Vevey, bells rang, and a great procession of soldiers in parti-color followed by others in pure white, with a hundred pages also in white, carrying the white cross of Savoy, came out from the gates to meet him.

    The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

  • Passion plays and mysteries culminated at Easter in a wild carnival week in which priests and people sang and danced together in masks and parti-color from dawn to starlight.

    The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

  • The most often seen Pomeranian patterns include black and tan, brindle and parti-color.

    Article Source 2009

  • The orange or liver is found in the standard parti-color or piebald patterns.

    unknown title 2009

  • A parti-color Pomeranian is white but has patches of one or more other colors in its coat.

    Article Source 2009

  • Colors include fawn, sand, chestnut, silver and steel blue, but any color is accepted, including black & tan and parti-color.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2008

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