![]() ![]() Color-coded is by 1943, in reference to wiring in radios and military aircraft. In reference to "the hue of the darker (as distinguished from the 'white') varieties of mankind", attested from 1792, in people of colour, in translations from French in reference to the French colony of Saint-Domingue (modern Haiti) and there meaning "mulattoes." Hence figurative sense as in show one's (true) colors "reveal one's opinions or intentions " compare colors. 1300 as "distinctive mark of identification" (as of a badge or insignia or livery, later of a prize-fighter, horse-rider, etc.), originally in reference to a coat of arms. ![]() 1300 as "a reason or argument advanced by way of justifying, explaining, or excusing an action," hence "specious reason or argument, that which hides the real character of something" (late 14c.).įrom c. in figurative sense of "stylistic device, embellishment. as "kind, sort, variety, description." From late 14c. as "a coloring matter, pigment, dye." From mid-14c. As "color as an inherent property of matter, that quality of a thing or appearance which is perceived by the eye alone," from late 14c. Meaning "a hue or tint, a visible color, the color of something" is from c. Classical correction made color an alternative from 15c., and that spelling became established in the U.S. For sense evolution, compare Sanskrit varnah "covering, color," which is related to vrnoti "covers," and also see chroma.Ĭolour was the usual English spelling from 14c., from Anglo-French. ![]() #COLORCAST ANIMAL SKIN#Early 13c., "skin color, complexion," from Anglo-French culur, coulour, Old French color "color, complexion, appearance" (Modern French couleur), from Latin color "color of the skin color in general, hue appearance," from Old Latin colos, originally "a covering" (akin to celare "to hide, conceal"), from PIE root *kel- (1) "to cover, conceal, save." Old English words for "color" were hiw ("hue"), bleo. ![]()
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