colourable

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Colourful.
 * 2) Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.
 * 3) * 1612,, Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia, Chapel Hill 1988 (Select Edition of his Writings), p.178:
 * they told him their comming was for some extraordinary tooles and shift of apparell; by this colourable excuse, they obtained 6. or 7. more to their confederacie.
 * 1)  Deceptive; fake, misleading.
 * 2)  In appearance only; not in reality what it purports to be, hence counterfeit, feigned.
 * 3) That can be coloured.
 * 1)  In appearance only; not in reality what it purports to be, hence counterfeit, feigned.
 * 2) That can be coloured.
 * 1) That can be coloured.

Usage notes
The sense "that can be coloured" is more common in American than in British English.

Translations

 * Czech: obarvitelný
 * French: ,
 * Malay: boleh warna
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: coloreable


 * Spanish: