colourfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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colourful (comparative more colourful, superlative most colourful)

1. British standard spelling of colorful.
   • 1895, The Annual of the British School at Athens:

     It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.

   • 1895, H. Walter Staner, Henry Sturmey, The Autocar:

     One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.

   • 2002 July 14, “Did Hussain go too far?”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 28 February 2019:

     Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.

   • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎:

     And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes

   • 2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian‎:

     In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell.

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