"quincolor" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From quin- + color. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|quin|color}} quin- + color Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} quincolor (not comparable)
  1. Having five colors. Tags: not-comparable, rare Synonyms: pentacolor, pentacolored
    Sense id: en-quincolor-en-adj-WwHThT7x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with quin-

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        {
          "ref": "1912 February 20, The Detroit Free Press, volume 77, number 148, Detroit, Mich., page 3, column 6",
          "text": "QUINCOLOR FLAG OF CHINA RAISED / It Flies Only Two or Three Minutes Over the Legation in Washington. / The red, white, blue, green and yellow flag of the new Chinese republic was raised over the legation in this city for the first time yesterday, the Chinese new year, according to the old calendar, but owing to the omission of some formality it remained aloft only two or three minutes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, Papers Presented at the International Conference on Flower and Fruit Sterility, page 42",
          "text": "There are about three hundred of these distributed by color as follows: 136 violet, 71 red, 33 incarnats, 2 rose, 6 white, 36 piquettes (picoties), 9 tricolor, a quadricolor and a quincolor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1933, The Japan Magazine, page 44, column 1",
          "text": "In this way, the new state had birth, and the new quincolor national flag was hoisted at Changchun, now renamed Hsinching (New Capital) where the central government was removed from Mukden, long the capital of Chang Hsueh-liang’s administration.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Russell Warren Howe, Lovers in Lomé, and Other Stories, Washington, D.C.: The Novella Club, page 35",
          "text": "At that time, no constitution had yet been drawn up for Togo, but the Times had a picture of a Ghanaian minister, Ako Adjei, holding up a pamphlet embossed with a strange quincolor flag.",
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          "word": "pentacolor"
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          "word": "pentacolored"
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        "rare"
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  "etymology_text": "From quin- + color.",
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          "ref": "1912 February 20, The Detroit Free Press, volume 77, number 148, Detroit, Mich., page 3, column 6",
          "text": "QUINCOLOR FLAG OF CHINA RAISED / It Flies Only Two or Three Minutes Over the Legation in Washington. / The red, white, blue, green and yellow flag of the new Chinese republic was raised over the legation in this city for the first time yesterday, the Chinese new year, according to the old calendar, but owing to the omission of some formality it remained aloft only two or three minutes.",
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          "ref": "1927, Papers Presented at the International Conference on Flower and Fruit Sterility, page 42",
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          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1933, The Japan Magazine, page 44, column 1",
          "text": "In this way, the new state had birth, and the new quincolor national flag was hoisted at Changchun, now renamed Hsinching (New Capital) where the central government was removed from Mukden, long the capital of Chang Hsueh-liang’s administration.",
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Russell Warren Howe, Lovers in Lomé, and Other Stories, Washington, D.C.: The Novella Club, page 35",
          "text": "At that time, no constitution had yet been drawn up for Togo, but the Times had a picture of a Ghanaian minister, Ako Adjei, holding up a pamphlet embossed with a strange quincolor flag.",
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