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colourbound

colourbound adjective: able to access only squares of one colour (either black or white).

Adjective

colourbound (not comparable)

  1. Able to access only squares of one colour (either black or white).
    • The bishop is a colourbound piece.

Forms of colourbound

alternative UScolorbound

Origin of colourbound

From colour + bound.

Questions about colourbound

What does colourbound mean?
Colourbound means able to access only squares of one colour (either black or white).
What part of speech is colourbound?
Colourbound is an adjective.

Words near colourbound in the dictionary

  1. colourative
  2. colourbearer
  3. colourbearers
  4. colourblind
  5. colourblindness
  6. colourbound
  7. colourbred
  8. colourbreed
  9. colourbreeding
  10. colourbreeds
  11. colourburst

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