particolored

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Already the forest has assumed its particoloured tints.

From Afar in the Forest by Groome, William H. C.

It serves usefully to correct the summer diarrhoea of children, or that which occurs during teething, when the stools are green, slimy and particoloured.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

And while thus standing, doubtful whether to knock at the little gate or to ride on, it began to open, and a great particoloured dog looked out on us.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter

If the whitethroat eggs were taken from the nest and placed among particoloured pebbles such as are common on some shores, it would need care to distinguish them.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

What says Virgil of that particoloured damsel—— Tithoni croceum liquens Aurora cubile.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)