coloring
- noun
- /ˈkʌlərɪŋ/
- US
- The artist used vibrant coloring to make the landscape painting more appealing.
If if I know one thing after all these years, it's put a guy with my coloring who's super pale but has blue eyes and red hair against blue.
- If if I know one thing after all these years, it's put a guy with my coloring who's super pale but has blue eyes and red hair against blue.
Examples
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Look, note the black coloring, characteristic of the meteor.
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The two men were of a height, roughly of an age, and not dissimilar in coloring and features.
Fiction book (1990) -
I have her body, I guess, but in my face and my coloring, I take after my dad.
Fiction book (1998) -
- Same build, same coloring.
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Notice the touch in that one, and the coloring.
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I would say she looks like, well, she has something of the coloring of Ms. Fisher.
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With your husband's coloring, a deep tone would bring out his lips.
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Their rich coloring in the early morning light always evoked for him times long past.
Fiction book (1994) -
Look at that subtle off-white coloring.
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If your coloring is in the autumn range like Maria, I would suggest you try the earth-tone eye makeup.
Synonyms
The way something looks because of its red, blue, or green shade
The pattern of colors on something that affects how it looks
Compounds
- Baby Talk
A book with simple line drawings for children to color with crayons or pencils
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Coloring comes from color, from Latin 'color' meaning 'colour', and it can mean the way something looks because of its colours. So the coloring of a bird or a leaf is the pattern or appearance of its colours.