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Colorful

adjective

Having striking color. Synonym: colourful.

Striking in variety and interest. Synonym: colourful. "A colorful character" , "Colorful language"

Having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination. Synonyms: colored, coloured. "The film was in color" , "Amber-colored heads of grain"

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"Colorful" Quotes from Famous Books

... to drive around the entire acreage. It took us some hours. Always the prairie, boundless and colorful. Miles of rich tall grass, sprinkled everywhere with purple, brick red, yellow, white, and blue blossoms! Billows of air drove the surface of it into waves. It was a ...

— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... of contending repartees, or the cry of a wailing sonnet. But this lord of laughter may be served by the young alone; and by and by each veteran—scarred, it may be, but not maimed, dear lady—is well content to relinquish the glory and adventure of such colorful campaigns for some quiet inglenook, where, with love to make a third, he prattles of past days and deeds with one that goes hand in hand with him toward ...

— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell

... newly outfitted in the colorful uniforms of His Majesty's Militia, short clothes and white wigs, drilling in the market square, swaggering around the town, filling up the new City Tavern. Dances and dinners for the officers were the order of the day. ...

— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore

... and tall oleanders—all set out in ornamental tubs; three hundred vessels of fine porcelain filled with fruit; one hundred and twenty baskets of dried preserves; four hundred crystal cups containing ices, an uncounted number of carafes sparkling with rare liqueurs—all created a picture of colorful luxury, which, we are assured, struck those that looked upon it as "most agreeable." Threading their musical murmurings through all the laughter and badinage, the tossing jets of the pyramidal fountains fell away ...

— The Story of Versailles • Francis Loring Payne

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