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colour

nounadjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

noun

  1. 1

    Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

    Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender. Add a bit of white miso, lemon juice, truffle oil, chives: survey your wreckage, which will be the wrong colour (cream with a hint of grey) and the wrong consistency (gluey).

adjective

  1. 1

    Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

verb

  1. 1

    Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

Forms

plural
colours
past tense
coloured
past participle
coloured
present participle
colouring
third person singular
colours
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