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colowre

colowre noun: early Modern spelling of colour.

Noun

colowre (countable and uncountable, plural colowres)

  1. Early Modern spelling of colour.
    • Thys godlye dystrybution […] is muche more consonante and agreable to Goddes worde and more certayne dyscharge of youre graces conscyence then to suffer the same possessions to be vngodly caste awaye and consumed vnder suche false colowre and pretence […]1544, Richard Tracy, A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght […], folios 18ᵛ–19ʳ
    • Neuertheles vpon .cccc. yeares after in the tyme of Innocentius the third they were reformed by Albartus byshop of Hierusalem, accordyng to the rule of Basilius, and the colowre of their coape was turned into whyte by Honorius the third where afore it was russet.1546, Polydore Vergil, edited by Thomas Langley, An Abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile […], pages 37–38

Forms of colowre

pluralcolowres

Questions about colowre

What does colowre mean?
Colowre means early Modern spelling of colour.
What part of speech is colowre?
Colowre is a noun.
What is the plural of colowre?
The plural of colowre is colowres.

Words near colowre in the dictionary

  1. colovaginoplasty
  2. colovesical
  3. colovesicle
  4. colovesicles
  5. colovesicular
  6. colowre
  7. colowres
  8. colp
  9. colpack
  10. colpacks
  11. colpate

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