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party colored

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par⋅ty-col⋅ored

[pahr-tee-kuhl-erd]
–adjective
parti-colored.

par⋅ti-col⋅ored

[pahr-tee-kuhl-erd]
–adjective
having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.


Origin:
1525–35; parti variegated < MF ≪ L partītus divided, ptp. of partīre to part. See party
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parti-colored 
1535, from party "divided," from pp. of Fr. partir "to divide" (see part (v.)). The noun parti itself occurs in the sense "parti-colored" from c.1380.
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