colourable

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Определение colourable в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

Deceptive, fake; specious

Glauce, what needs this colourable word, / To cloke the cause, that hath it selfe bewrayd?.

That can be coloured

Colourful

Apparently true; potentially justifiable

These three examples have what may be called a 'colourable' claim for a public justification: they do not appear to us as checkerboard statues because, looking at the distinctions they draw, we presume the required justification does exist.

{s} able to be colored or painted (also colorable)

Этимология

() From colour +‎ -able.