rainbow
/ˈɹeɪnboʊ/ verb C2- To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
- To take the appearance of a rainbow.
- In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.
He/she/it rainbows · Past rainbowed · Past participle rainbowed · -ing form rainbowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- rainbow
- He/she/it
- rainbows
- Past
- rainbowed
- Past participle
- rainbowed
- -ing form
- rainbowing
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I think it was a little gray fairy with a rainbow scarf that came tiptoeing along the last moonlight night and did it.
A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, “I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.” “True,” replied the Crane; “but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill.”
It was as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine.
It was also considered a luxury to have them alive, it being an amusing sight to see them die, for, when dying, they change color three or four times, and like the rainbow when it disappears, pass through all the prismatic shades, after which they were sent to the kitchen.
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