英和和英

語源

From party (“parted, divided”) +‎ coloured.

形容詞

party-coloured (comparative more party-coloured, superlative most party-coloured)

1. Coloured with different tints; variegated.

   a party-coloured flower

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 236:

     One after another the parti-coloured fragments of each fragile fabric were strewed over the table, till gradually his hand became accustomed and steady—wall and roofs were properly balanced, and the mimic Babels mounted high in air,...