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colour vb. (2 cf. COLOUR sb. 4)
1. to dye Shr. I. i. 211, IV. i. 137, Wint. IV. ii. [iii.] 49, Cym. V. i. 2.
2. to give a specious appearance to, gloss, disguise Meas. II. i. 237, 1H4 I. iii. 109, Ham. II. ii. 296, III. i. 45 “That show of such an exercise may colour Your loneliness.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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