colour
verb C2- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
He/she/it colours · Past coloured · Past participle coloured · -ing form colouring
Verb forms
- Base form
- colour
- He/she/it
- colours
- Past
- coloured
- Past participle
- coloured
- -ing form
- colouring
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Miss Bennet had not been able to hear of his coming without changing colour.
Elizabeth coloured, and said, “A little.”
About halfway up the forearm was a curious brown design, a triangle inside a circle, standing out in vivid relief upon the lard-coloured skin.
A short walk along the winding drive with such sward and oaks around it as one only sees in rural England, then a sudden turn, and the long, low Jacobean house of dingy, liver-coloured brick lay before us, with an old-fashioned garden of cut yews on each side of it.
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