versicolor

Etymology
From +.

Adjective

 * 1) particoloured; of various colours; that changes its colour

Quotations
et fultum pluma versicolore caput. sic haec est cultu versicolore decens ?
 * Propertius. In: Propertius with an English translation by H. E. Butler, 1916, p. 198f.:
 * sed Chio thalamo aut Oricia terebintho
 * his rather to lie in a chamber of Chian marble or on a couch of Orician terebinth, his head propped on down of rainbow hues.
 * Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. In: Ovid's Fasti with an English translation by Sir James George Frazer, 1959, p. 286f.:
 * cur tamen, ut dantur vestes Cerialibus albae,
 * But why is it that whereas white robes are given out at the festival of Ceres, Flora is neatly clad in attire of many colours ?