colouring

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Noun

colouring (countable and uncountable, plural colourings)

1. (British, Canada) Alternative spelling of coloring
   • 2024 December 23, “Cancer survivor makes hampers for young patients”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The seven hampers for four boys and three girls were personalised to each patient, including overnight hotel stays, colouring books and self care items.

   • 2025 April 22, Madeline Halpert, “Kennedy announces ban on artificial dyes in food and drinks”, in BBC‎^[2]:

     In 2008, British health ministers agreed to phase out six artificial food colourings by 2009, while the European Union bans some colourings and requires warning labels on others.

Derived terms

• overcolouring
• pseudocolouring

Adjective

colouring (comparative more colouring, superlative most colouring)

1. Of something that provides colour.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 168:

     He soon exhausted pleasure, and then reasoned upon it: he soon exhausted it, because he wanted that colouring enthusiasm which creates more than half of what it enjoys;...

Verb

colouring

1. present participle and gerund of colour