The antique quilt looked oddly off-coloured after the flood, its delicate patterns marred by muddy stains.

She wrapped a many-coloured scarf around her neck to brighten the gray winter day.

Studies have shown that various colour blindnesses affect how people perceive traffic lights under different lighting conditions.

Please sort the colour screws by shade before assembling the display.

His success in local elections doesn't guarantee national appeal; that's a horse of a different colour.

She viewed the relationship through rose-coloured glasses.

In American English, the R-coloured vowel in words like 'bird' and 'fur' has a lowered third formant that gives it a distinct timbre.

The manufacturer added a colour retention agent to the canned tomatoes to preserve their vibrant red during long-term storage.

I watched the rose-coloured pastor alight on the orchard fence at dusk.

A rose-coloured starling landed on the windowsill and peered inside.