miscolour

English

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Etymology

From Middle English miscolouren. Compare Saterland Frisian Misklöär (“mismatched colour”). By surface analysis, mis- +‎ colour.

Verb

miscolour (third-person singular simple present miscolours, present participle miscolouring, simple past and past participle miscoloured)

  1. (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To set forth erroneously or unfairly.
    to miscolour facts

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