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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1488-1603
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Colourit, Colorit, ppl. adj. Also: coloret, collerit; coullorit, coullouerit. [ME. coloured, -et (14th c.). See also Cullourit.]
1. fig. Specious, plausible, pretended.1488 Acts II. 211/1.
Aluterly in thar defalt and colourit dyssate done be him & his peruerst counsale 1490 Acts Lords Auditors 141/2.
[It] sall be na crime to him becausse he did it be a colourit richt as said is 1533 Boece vii. x. 241 b.
His colorit wourdis war nocht to thame vnkend 1535 Stewart 39141.
He … With colorit law rycht mony saikles slew 1540 Lynd. Sat. 2865.
Ane cavell … Will rin to Rome … And, syne, cum hame, with mony colorit crack 1567 Acts III. 27/2.
Be indirect and colourit menis, to colour, and hald bak the knawlege of the treuth of the committaris of the said cryme 1571 Reg. Privy C. II. 102.
Rebellis and dissobedient subjectis … , passand to and fra Edinburgh under a coloret pretense of saulffing … thair guidis being thairin a1578 Pitsc. I. 44/29.
He … enterit in to the castell quhair be feinȝeit and coullorit continance he was ressauit witht great ioya1578 Ib. 141/30.
Quhen they requirit ony thing wnder collerit fraud and gyle
2. Having a particular colour.1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 204.
For vj elne braid rede crammesy colourit1513 Doug. vi. xi. 57.
The bissy beys … On diuers colorit flouris skalit wide 1592 Edinburgh Testaments XXIV. 272.
Thrie oxin blak collerit of v ȝeir auldis1603 Montgomery Mem. 247.
For sax par of coullorit dray ledder shoues 1603 Ib. 250.
Four par of coullouerit [sic] shous to my self
