Definition of "colours" []

• Plural form of colour. (noun)
• The national flag flown by a ship at sea. (noun)
• The British military ceremony of raising the flag. (noun)
• The balls that score more than one point in snooker. Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colour. (verb)

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• "By mixing _colours with colours_, he produces compound colours, or _hues_."
• "Certainly, Theotimus, beauty is without effect, unprofitable and dead, if light and splendour do not make it lively and effective, whence we term colours lively when they have light and lustre."
• "I bought two short sleeve summer shirts in colours that matched the socks."