in color

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in color

phrase in colour

  1. Using colour/color (or hue) as opposed to shades of grey/gray. In filming the coronation of King George VI in color, she figuratively wrote finis to the chapter of experiment which began with the first color film ever marketed—that of the coronation of his father, King George V, in 1905.

    Opposite: in black and white

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, color. The box in which the bomb was placed was similar to a salt box and was blue in color.

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@misc{in_color_2026,
  title = {in color},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/in%20color},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}