false colors
Example Sentences
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Models wore collarless jackets and short feminine dresses in pastel colours as well as boxy satin jackets paired with billowy shorts in Friday night's show.
From Reuters • Sep. 23, 2023
Victoria Beckham, for one, made a case for soft power with her collection of pastel colours punctuated with pretty, shiny, glittery shoes, designed, she said, to demonstrate “strength in delicacy”.
From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2017
I always think of her as those bright pastel colours.
From Time • Sep. 9, 2015
Around him the pale walls shivered, their pastel colours twisting and swirling together in rapid succession.
From Nature • Jul. 21, 2015
The lawyer's picture was also an oil painting, whereas this one had been made with pastel colours and was pale and unclear.
From The Trial by Wyllie, David