miscolour
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Etymology
From Middle English miscolouren. Compare Saterland Frisian Misklöär (“mismatched colour”). By surface analysis, mis- + colour.
Verb
miscolour (third-person singular simple present miscolours, present participle miscolouring, simple past and past participle miscoloured)
- (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- (transitive, figuratively) To set forth erroneously or unfairly.
- to miscolour facts
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