ppl. a. (UNDER-1 10 a.)
1777. H. Walpole, Lett. to R. Jephson, 17 Oct. In landscape-painting some parts must be under-coloured to give the higher relief to the rest.
1870. Spectator, 20 Aug., 993. We have steadily asserted that France was outnumbered, and now believe that our statements were under-coloured.
1885. I. K. Felch, Poultry Culture, 264. There is never a male so dark that he will lift a faded white undercolored, white-spotted female’s progeny up to a first-class Standard.
