high colours

English

Noun

high colours

  1. plural of high colour
  2. (of a person's appearance) Synonym of high colour
    • 1926 January, Aldous Huxley, “The Monocle”, in The Criterion, volume 4, Faber and Gwyer, Ltd., page 42:
      The parlour-maid, who was young, with high colours and yellow hair, looked at him […]
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