Meaning

noun a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect

noun interest and variety and intensity

noun the timbre of a musical sound

originFrom Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. The spelling color was popularized in modern…

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