Etymology

miscolour

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Today it means: To give a wrong colour to. Full definition →

Middle English miscolouren
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  1. Middle English · inherited frommiscolouren
  2. English todaymiscolour

From Middle English miscolouren. Compare Saterland Frisian Misklöär (“mismatched colour”). By surface analysis, mis- + colour.

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