High-colored

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High´-col`ored

a.	1.	Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed.
	2.	Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description.

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Blowzed high			From a letter of my great-grandmother's written to a stubborn daughter upon some unfilial behavior, like running away to be married, I suspect that she was fond of the high-colored fiction of her day, for she tells the wilful child that she has "planted a dagger in her mother's heart," and I should not be surprised if it were from this fine-languaged lady that my grandfather derived his taste for poetry rather than from his father, who was of a worldly wiser mind. My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context said the high-colored, dark-eyed lady, with the clearest chiselled utterance. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context Hers was a Norman beauty, fresh, high-colored, redundant, the flesh of Rubens covering the muscles of the Farnese Hercules, and not the slender articulations of the Venus de' Medici, Apollo's graceful consort. An Old Maid by de Balzac, Honore View in context			high wind high wire High Wycombe High, low, jack, and the game high-altitude high-altitude low-opening parachute technique high-altitude missile engagement zone high-and-mighty high-angle fire high-angle gun high-area storm high-backed High-blown High-bred High-built high-bush blueberry high-calibre high-carb high-carbon steel high-ceilinged High-Church High-churchism High-churchman High-churchman-ship high-class High-colored high-coloured high-concept high-context high-count high-crowned high-definition high-definition television high-density high-density airspace control zone high-density lipoprotein high-density polyethylene high-dependency high-end high-energy high-energy physics high-explosive High-fed high-fibre high-fidelity High-finished high-five high-flier high-flown High-flushed high-flyer			high-capacity floppy High-Capacity Fog Foam High-Capacity Heat Pipe High-Capacity High-Explosive High-Capacity Personal Rapid Transit High-Capacity Programmable-Logic Device High-Capacity Projectile High-Capacity Projectile High-Capacity Transport high-carb High-Carbohydrate Low-Fat High-Carbohydrate, High-Fiber high-carbon chromium High-Carbon Filled Polymer High-carbon steel High-carbon steel high-ceiling diuretics high-ceiling diuretics high-ceiling diuretics high-ceilinged high-challenge fire hazard High-Cholesterol-High Fat High-Church High-Church High-churchism High-churchman High-churchman-ship high-class high-class high-class High-colored high-coloured High-complexity Clinical Laboratory Director High-Concentration, Low-Volume high-concept High-Confidence Software Platforms for Cyber-Physical Systems High-Consequence Engineering Systems High-Contamination Area high-context High-Context Culture High-Context Cultures high-copy number High-Cost Serving Area high-count high-country High-coupon bond refunding high-crowned High-Current Arc Ignition high-current rectifier High-Current Relativistic Electron Beam high-current switch High-cut filter High-cut filter High-Data-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network High-Deductible Health Care Plans High-Deductible Health Coverage

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