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colour 1

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Searchable Lemmata: color (L), colour (ME), colorare (L), colur (AF), colour (OScots)), colour (MdE), coloured (MdE).
Alternate Forms: accolorare, coilour, coler, coleure, collour, color, colors, colour, coloure, colure, culur, culure.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Other; with regard to cloth and clothing, used to refer to cloth of a uniform colour; coloured cloth. Also in expressions such as 'of colour', 'de color', etc. (cf. the following sense).(circa 1300 - circa 1500)
1. xviij pannos, quorum iiij de colore et xiiij radiati ... ij lib. de filo cotonis Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [DMLBS Ac. Wardr. (p. 144) 1300]
2. in vj ulnis panni coloris ... et vij ulnis de motley pro garcionibus Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. Durh. (596) 1390]
3. Item pur un heyre a le auter - ij s. iiij d. ... En primes a le roy vj verges colour pris le verge ix s. Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Mch Tayl Accs (2 Hen IV) circa 1400/1401]
4. [197] ... Of colys ne of fullerys erthe ... Eche cloth of colour of be 3onden the see ... clothys of colour of Beverlie or of Lincoln ...[199] ... Of eche surcote, cote tabart [F cote tabbard] ... or other maner of cloth schapen. Legal. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Ipswich Domesday(2) ((Add 25011) 197-199) circa 1436]
5. [p. 58 (1458)] ... Streyte clothes of colour ... [p. 59] ... Clothe Kendalles, smal frises, Kedwellies clothe, and al other straite clothe ... [p. 63 (1462)] ... In his Bargayne halff Cheffar As Broode hoole Clothes or Broode Doszyns Legal. [MED GRed Bk.Bristol (pt. 2, pp. 58-63) circa 1460]
6. [f.4v] ... Item brins pour faire apareillier ... vallent de xvj escuz a xx escuz d’or ... ; diamans brins pour faire apareiller ... [f20.v] ... le brocour avera pur brocage ... Soy crue et colours pur le lb – iij d. .... [f.20r] ... pur toutz manere draps appellez broedes ... tant colorié come blanket et bastardes ... pur drap apellez fin brodes ... pur fines, draps lains ... , c’est assaveir scarletz, draps engreinez Accounts, Legal. [AND PRO (E163/9/21 f.4v-f.20r) circa 1485/1509]
AF, L, ME, OScots; Primarily N/A.
Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2a(n.) Dye; with regard to cloth and clothing, used to refer to dye or pigment; colour of cloth.(ante 709 still in current use)
1. coccineosque simul praecellit rubra colores Poetic. [DMLBS ALDH. (VirgV 163) ante 709]
2. [112] ... que nul meistre face madrer nulles leynes que serrount deliverer [sic] pur blewe ... [113] ... nul estraunge homme chemynant ... ovesqez ascuns leyns ou drapes d’estre colorez ... [114] ... que nul mestre ... face bartirer ou autre bargaine pur les colours de son arte faire Legal. [AND YMB (i 112-114) circa 1300/1500]
3. [197] ... Of colys ne of fullerys erthe ... Eche cloth of colour of be 3onden the see ... clothys of colour of Beverlie or of Lincoln ...[199] ... Of eche surcote, cote tabart [F cote tabbard] ... or other maner of cloth schapen. Legal. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order); cf. the previous sense [MED Ipswich Domesday(2) ((Add 25011) 197-199) circa 1436]
AF, L, ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2b1(n.) Decoration; in armorial design (or heraldry), used to refer to tincture; colour of the ground on a coat of arms, etc.; cf. the following sense.(circa 1330 - circa 1540)
1. [642] ... His berde was to is brest ywax; To his gerder heng is fax ... [665] ... His armes wer of rede kolour ... [668] ... Haslak smot Reinbroun anon, Þat to þe bokel þe schel chon. Heroic, Romance. (work: c1300?) [MED Reinbrun ((Auch) p.642-668) circa 1330]
2. [80] ... Le Roy de Jesuralem [sic] porte l’escu d’argent croiselee d’or a une croise potente d’or. Et si avient malement colour d’or en argent ... [81] ... Sire Alayn de la Zouche porte l’escu de goules besauntee d’or ... [82] ... Quant ils sount d’or, sount besauntz; quant ils sount d’argent, platz [AND Dean Tract (80-82) circa 1350]
3. colores principales secundum se sunt color albus et niger; colores vero medii sunt azoreus, aureus et rubeus; colores autem submedii sunt color viridis et alii similes, si inveniantur(dating uncertain) heraldic colours [DMLBS BAD. AUR. (99) circa 1400]
4. All hor colouris to ken were of clene yalow Heroic, Poetic, Romance. [MED Destr.Troy ((Htrn 388) 5462) circa 1540]
AF, L, ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.
2b2(n.) Decoration; used to refer to personal colour or colours on a helmet, livery or similar; a coloured device.(ante 1200 - circa 1475)
1. Un grant coup li vint doner Amount el heaulme peint de flors, Qe tost abati les colurs [AND Amis ANTS (640) circa 1150/1200]
2. 'Is þis ihesus þe iuster? ... Or it is Pieres þe plowman who paynted hym so rede?' ... 'þise aren Pieres armes, His coloures & his cotearmure' Poetic, Vision. (work: c1378) [MED PPl.B ((LdMisc 581) 19.13) circa 1400]
3. There he [read: be] but ... v colours yn all blasyng of armes, that ys to say ... sabylls, aser, gowles, synaper, and vertecolers [MED Sln.4 Recipes in Rel.Ant.1 ((Sln 4) 324) circa 1475]
AF, ME, MdE.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical L; Old French. The OED adds: 'Colour, corresponding to the late Anglo-Norman French, has been the normal spelling in English from 14th cent.; but color has been used occasionally, chiefly under Latin influence, from 15th cent., and is now the prevalent spelling in U.S.' ['colour | color, n.1', 2nd edition, 1989; online version June 2011. <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/36596>; accessed 16 June 2011].
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