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(American spelling) Extremely or excessively colourful. quotations examples
I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me
1941, “Pink Elephants on Parade”, in Ned Washington (lyrics), Oliver Wallace (music), Dumbo
Technicolour dreams are all I see / Technicolour dreams of you and me
1968, Anthony King (lyrics and music), “Technicolour Dreams”, in Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo, performed by Status Quo
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene / But yours was kitchen clean / Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home
1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “Kid Charlemagne”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan
It's so hard to be a technicolor girl in an earth-tone world.
2007 May 2, “Letters”, in New York Times
How could the electrochemical processes in the lump of gray matter that is our brain give rise to or, even more mysteriously, be the dazzling technicolor play of consciousness, with its transports of joy, its stabs of anguish and its stretches of mild contentment alternating with boredom?
2007 November 18, Jim Holt, “Mind of a Rock”, in New York Times
(physics) Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field. examples
plural technicolors
(American spelling) A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print. examples
(informal) Vivid colour. examples
(physics) A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics examples