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high-colored

[ hahy-kuhl-erd ]

adjective

  1. deep in color; vivid.
  2. flushed or red; florid:

    a high-colored complexion.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of high-colored1

First recorded in 1920–25

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Example Sentences

The jelly for this purpose must be very high-colored, by means of brandy, or dark sweet wine.

In the window of a little shop were two cups and saucers of thickish china, decorated in a high-colored rose pattern.

A few gaudy ribbons and a string of high-colored glass beads about the neck are greatly prized by them.

Yet the boy's handsome and high-colored face stayed courteously attentive to the wishes of his host, and did not change.

Three hundred pounds per cow a year of high-colored and fine-flavored butter is a fair average for a herd.

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