pentacolor

English

Etymology

From penta- +‎ color.

Adjective

pentacolor (not comparable)

Having five colors.
- 1976, Sportswoman, page 50, column 1:
  FEMINIST ASTROLOGERS—pentacolor, hand-cast, interpreted horoscopes, $17.50.
- 1978, Ms., page 101, column 1:
  Feminist Astrologers—attractive pentacolor, hand-cast birth chart, in-depth interpretation, $35.
- 1982 January 13, Trisha Yeager, “Count the food colors”, in Standard-Speaker, volume 115, number 32,771, Hazleton, Pa., page 33, column 1:
  Here’s a simple color-cued key to healthful eating that I call the pentacolor principle: At mealtime, try and include at least five differently colored foods.
- 1987 February 16, Ann Patterson-Rabon, “Blacksburg seeking lighted ball field”, in The Gaffney Ledger, volume 94, number 1, Gaffney, S.C., page 1, column 1:
  With the money the committee raises, they will light the field with 80-foot pentacolor poles holding 1500 watt quartz lights.
- 1988, Patricia Angela Sieber, Highlighting Competing Discourses: The Lantern Festival in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, pages 31, 36, and 42:
  As for those whose annular screens were big, they (measured) three to four feet in diameter; they were all made up of pentacolor glass tiles, (painted with) landscapes and genre scenes, flowers and bamboo, feathered and pelted creatures— each and every single one was marvellous and unusual and imposing like a colored folding fan. […] In the middle pentacolor jade staves formed the four large characters "Myriad Years (to the) August Thearch". […] There were also secluded wards and quiet backstreets where the houses of those who loved to busy themselves set up pentacolor bubble lanterns made of glass.
- 1993, Daily Report, West Europe, page 32, column 2:
  In that year, the same year as the Addaura bomb against Giovanni Falcone, of Corvo, and of the anonymous letters, Alberto Di Pisa, Palermo deputy procurator, started the investigations of the contracts that smelled of irregularities managed by the city council, first pentaparty and then pentacolor council, led by then-Christian Democrat Leoluca Orlando.
- 1998, Techniques & Culture, page 122:
  […] bicolor, tricolor, tetracolor, pentacolor, and multicolor formations, plus patterns in which all diagonals seem to have a different color configuration.
- 2004, Anne Paul, “Symmetry Schemes on Paracas Necrópolis Textiles”, in Dorothy K. Washburn, editor, Embedded Symmetries, Natural and Cultural, The University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, section “Color”, page 75, column 2:
  Color patterns with pentacolor diagonals (Figure 5.3) include variations that employ wild card color blocks.

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