Colourish

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A substance used in gilding to brighten the finish of the gilded object. obsolete, uncountable

    "Muffola, a kind of colour that goldsmithes call colourish."

Verb
  1. 1
    To add colour to, to brighten with colour. obsolete, transitive

    "Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation, and new impressions but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before."

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"Muffola, a kind of colour that goldsmithes call colourish."

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