colourable

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkʌləɹəb(ə)l/

形容詞

比較不可 廃用 古語 時々

(obsolete) Colourful. / Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable. / (now rare, sometimes law) Deceptive; fake, misleading.

日本語の意味

（時代遅れの用法）色どり豊かな / 一見真実のような、うわべだけ正しそうな / （現在では珍しく、法的文脈などで）欺瞞的な、偽装の、誤解を招く

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The colourable tapestry brightened the dim hall with a riot of hues.

その色とりどりのタペストリーは薄暗い広間を鮮やかに彩った。

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意味（1）

(obsolete) Colourful.

意味（2）

Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.

Doth the master make any bargaine, or dispatch that pleaseth not? it is immediately smothered and suppressed, soone after forging causes, and devising colourable excuses, to excuse the want of execution or answer.

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意味（3）

(now rare, sometimes law) Deceptive; fake, misleading.

意味（4）

(law) In appearance only; not in reality what it purports to be, hence counterfeit, feigned.

意味（5）

That can be coloured.

This matter, however, is not itself coloured, but is only capable of exhibiting colours, by the addition of other matters : and hence we have ventured to call it the colourable, rather than the colouring parts of the plant, by which we merely indicate its property of becoming coloured, but not its actual possession of colour.

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