Meanings
- not comparableHaving five colors.
FEMINIST ASTROLOGERS—pentacolor, hand-cast, interpreted horoscopes, $17.50.
1976, Sportswoman, page 50, column 15 more examples
Feminist Astrologers—attractive pentacolor, hand-cast birth chart, in-depth interpretation, $35.
1978, Ms., page 101, column 1Here’s a simple color-cued key to healthful eating that I call the pentacolor principle: At mealtime, try and include at least five differently colored foods.
1982 January 13, Trisha Yeager, “Count the food colors”, in Standard-Speaker, volume 115, number 32,771, Hazleton, Pa., page 33, column 1With the money the committee raises, they will light the field with 80-foot pentacolor poles holding 1500 watt quartz lights.
1987 February 16, Ann Patterson-Rabon, “Blacksburg seeking lighted ball field”, in The Gaffney Ledger, volume 94, number 1, Gaffney, S.C., page 1, column 1As for those whose annular screens were big, they (measured) three to four feet in diameter; they were all made up of pentacolor glass tiles, (painted with) landscapes and genre scenes, flowers and bamboo, feathered and pelted creatures— each and every single one was marvellous and unusual and imposing like a colored folding fan.[…]In the middle pentacolor jade staves formed the four large characters "Myriad Years (to the) August Thearch".[…]There were also secluded wards and quiet backstreets where the houses of those who loved to busy themselves set up pentacolor bubble lanterns made of glass.
1988, Patricia Angela Sieber, Highlighting Competing Discourses: The Lantern Festival in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, pages 31, 36, and 42In that year, the same year as the Addaura bomb against Giovanni Falcone, of Corvo, and of the anonymous letters, Alberto Di Pisa, Palermo deputy procurator, started the investigations of the contracts that smelled of irregularities managed by the city council, first pentaparty and then pentacolor council, led by then-Christian Democrat Leoluca Orlando.
1993, Daily Report, West Europe, page 32, column 2Synonyms: pentacolored, quincolor
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving five colors.
Origin
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