coloration

plural colorations · alternative dated colorification · alternative UK colouration

1. countableuncountableThe act or art of coloring.
2. countableuncountableThe quality of being colored.
3. countableuncountableentertainmentA notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
4. countableuncountableentertainmentOrnamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
5. countableuncountablePolitical tendency.

   The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration.

   2014, Kevin P. Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition, page 175

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   Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents.

   1968, Bernard Cosman, Robert Jack Huckshorn, Republican Politics, page 88

6. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThis when a consonant bleeds one of the qualities to the next vowel before the consonant disappears. This can describe PIE Laryngeal Theory.