a. Also 7, 9 vary-colour’d, 9 variecoloured. [f. L. vari-us VARIOUS A. + COLOURED ppl. a.] Of various or different colors; variegated in color.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 115. They adorn it according to fancy; sometimes with ribbons, sometimes with streamers of varicoloured Taffata.
1684. trans. Agrippa’s Van. Arts, lxii. 184. Vary-colour’d, many-coated, canvas-wearing cloak-carriers.
1822. New Monthly Mag., IV. 486. The varicoloured clouds that hang that hang like pictures upon its sides.
1830. Tennyson, Arab. Nts., 57. A walk with vary-colour’d shells.
# 1841. Catlin, N. Amer. Ind., xxiv. (1844), I. 198. A profusion of vari-coloured beads.
1899. F. T. Bullen, Log Sea-waif, 73. All around the edge of the darkness ran an incessant tangle of vari-coloured lightnings.
b. fig. Different, diverse, diversified.
1855. Browning, Cleon, 161. My works, in all these varicoloured kinds.
1843. Lowell, Leg. Brittany, II. xxxii. Where fifty voices in one strand did twist Their varicolored tones.
