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/kˈələrɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Coloring n.

The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.

Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. "Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss."

Dead coloring. See under Dead.

verb

Color v. t. (past & past part. colored; pres. part. coloring)

To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. "The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color."

To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. "He colors the falsehood of AEneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen."

To hide. (Obs.) "That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight."

Color v. i. To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

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Etymology of 'Coloring'

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"Coloring" Quotes from Famous Books

... coloring is given to the rest of the narrative: "A maiden who did not mourn her death, but wandered up and down the mountain mourning her virginity." So much glamor has been thrown by poetry and by song, over the sacrifice of this Jewish maiden, that the popular ...

— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... Inspectors, whom I should be most ungrateful not to mention, since scarcely a day passed that he did not stir me to laughter and admiration by his marvellous gifts as a story-teller. Could I have preserved the picturesque force of his style, and the humorous coloring which nature taught him how to throw over his descriptions, the result, I honestly believe, would have been something new in literature. Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the ...

— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... of the many means of happiness which lie within our reach, we indulge this spoiled child of ours until it masters us. We shut the door against cheerfulness, and surround ourselves with gloom. The habit gives a coloring to our life. We grow querulous, moody and unsympathetic. Our conversation becomes full of regrets. We are harsh in our judgment of others. We are unsociable, and think everybody else is so. We make our breast a store-house of pain, which we inflict upon ...

— How to Get on in the World - A Ladder to Practical Success • Major A.R. Calhoon

... have failed to have felt his pulses quicken at the sudden conception of the desert's wonders that flashed before his mind as his outward eye took in the sunrise. He saw in flashing panorama the desert's magnificent distances, its unbelievable richness of coloring, its burning desert noons, its still windswept nights, and a vague waking of passions he never had known stirred within his self and ...

— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie

... up on the arms of an enormous "bishop's chair" of Flemish oak, was Lely's portrait of the "Red Duchess." What a glorious picture it was, in the masterly sweep of its lines, in the splendor of its incomparable coloring! The jagged edges of the canvas showed plainly where the vandal knife had passed, separating the painting from its frame. But the really big thing is always independent of its cadre; one hardly noticed the mutilation, and then immediately forgot ...

— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen

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