colowre

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noun

Early Modern spelling of colour.

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Meanings

nouncolowre (countable and uncountable, plural colowres)

plural colowres

  1. countableuncountableEarly Modern spelling of colour.

    The shepheardes daughters to gather flowres, To peinct their girlonds with his colowres

    1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
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    Thys godlye dystrybution […] is muche more consonante and agreable to Goddes worde and more certayne dyscharge of youre graces conscyence then to suffer the same possessions to be vngodly caste awaye and consumed vnder suche false colowre and pretence […]

    1544, Richard Tracy, A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght […], folios 18ᵛ–19ʳ

    Neuertheles vpon .cccc. yeares after in the tyme of Innocentius the third they were reformed by Albartus byshop of Hierusalem, accordyng to the rule of Basilius, and the colowre of their coape was turned into whyte by Honorius the third where afore it was russet.

    1546, Polydore Vergil, edited by Thomas Langley, An Abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile […], pages 37–38
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APA

colowre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colowre

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“colowre.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colowre. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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