"colourish" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or, Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, London: Edw. Blount, page 234",
          "text": "Muffola, a kind of colour that goldsmithes call colourish.",
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          "text": "1671, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Ric. Davis, Volume 2, Essay I, Section V, p. 27,\nFor having by this means overlaid it evenly with Gold, they can easily with fire force away the Mercury; and, with a liquor impregnated with Nitre, Verdigrease, Sal Armoniack, and other Saline Bodies, which they call a Colourish, restore its lustre to the remaining Gold, which they after make bright by polishing."
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        "A substance used in gilding to brighten the finish of the gilded object."
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        "(obsolete) A substance used in gilding to brighten the finish of the gilded object."
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      "form": "colourishes",
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          "ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Preface",
          "text": "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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        "To add colour to, to brighten with colour."
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        "(obsolete, transitive) To add colour to, to brighten with colour."
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          "text": "Muffola, a kind of colour that goldsmithes call colourish.",
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          "text": "1671, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Ric. Davis, Volume 2, Essay I, Section V, p. 27,\nFor having by this means overlaid it evenly with Gold, they can easily with fire force away the Mercury; and, with a liquor impregnated with Nitre, Verdigrease, Sal Armoniack, and other Saline Bodies, which they call a Colourish, restore its lustre to the remaining Gold, which they after make bright by polishing."
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