colowre

English

Noun

colowre (countable and uncountable, plural colowres)

1. Early Modern spelling of colour.
   • 1544, Richard Tracy, A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght […]‎^[1], folios 18^v–19^r:

     Thys godlye dystrybution […] is muche more consonante and agreable to Goddes worde and more certayne dyscharge of youre graces conscyence then to suffer the same possessions to be vngodly caste awaye and consumed vnder suche false colowre and pretence […]

   • 1546, Polydore Vergil, edited by Thomas Langley, An Abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile […]‎^[2], pages 37–38:

     Neuertheles vpon .cccc. yeares after in the tyme of Innocentius the third they were reformed by Albartus byshop of Hierusalem, accordyng to the rule of Basilius, and the colowre of their coape was turned into whyte by Honorius the third where afore it was russet.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:

     The shepheardes daughters to gather flowres,
     To peinct their girlonds with his colowres