high color
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[edit]high color (countable and uncountable, plural high colors)
- (computer graphics) graphics with two bytes of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 65536 different colors
- (of a substance) a strong color
- 1796, Hannah Glasse, The art of cookery, made plain and easy, London: T. Longman, page 318:
- […] put in as much tincture of saffron as will give them a high colour, but no currants […]
- (of a person's appearance) a pinkness or redness of the face; having rosacea; having a flushed face
- 1709 September 2, The Female Tatler, page 1:
- […] That when she had a high Colour she was very ill, and when she was pale, she was at Death's Door, […]
- 1796 December, George Forster, “Article IV: Voyage Philosephique et Pittoresque, &c.–A Philosophical and Picturesque Journey along the Banks of the Rhine, to Liege, through Flanders, Holland, &c. in the Year 1790”, in Analytical Review; Or, History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, page 592:
- […] Their features are strongly marked, and their bodies are very fleshy, and cumbrous: they have a high colour in their cheeks, and the complexion is fair enough […]