rainbow
/ˈɹeɪnboʊ/ noun B2- A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
- Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
- A wide assortment; a varied multitude. · a rainbow of possibilities
- An illusion; a mirage. · Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.
- A curveball, particularly a slow one.
- A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
- In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
- Rainbow trout.
Plural rainbows
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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.
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’s all full of rainbows--just little young rainbows that haven’t grown big yet--and Diana’s mother told her it was broken off a hanging lamp they once had.
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