Definition of "colowre"

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 […]

1544, Richard Tracy, A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght […]‎, folios 18v–19r

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.

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

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

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