overcolourとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• overcolor

語源

From over- +‎ colour.

動詞

overcolour (third-person singular simple present overcolours, present participle overcolouring, simple past and past participle overcoloured)

1. (figurative, transitive) To exaggerate.
   • 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage‎:

     But simultaneously, the growing force of her mind's intelligence, wherein was no enthusiasm to misdirect by overcolouring, enabled her to gather more than a suspicion of comparative feebleness in the man stripped of his terrors.

   • 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, 3rd part, page 78:

     He was seized after a minute, face to face with his actual comrade, with the impulse to overcolour.

   • 1922, Ronald McNeill, Ulster's Stand For Union‎:

     He never sought to gain or augment the confidence of his followers by concealing facts, minimising difficulties, or overcolouring expectations.

名詞

overcolour (plural overcolours)

1. (painting) Colour that is superimposed on another previously applied to obtain a different gradation, or a particular transparency effect.