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},
{
"form": "coloured",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "color",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"US"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Commonwealth English",
"Irish English"
],
"glosses": [
"Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color."
],
"links": [
[
"color",
"color#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "colour"
}
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