coloring, colouring (kuloring)

[Verbal n. of color, colour, v.] 1. The act or art of applying or combining colors, as in painting.2. A combination of color; tints or hues collectively; effect of a combination of tints, as in a picture or natural landscape. The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. Words worth, Immortality, st. 10. 3. A particular use of color, or style of combining colors, as in the work of an artist. They who propose to themselves in the training of an artist that he should unite the colouring of Tintoret, the finish of Albert Dürer, and the tenderne of Correggio. Ruskin, Modern Painters, III. iii. § 26. 4. A peculiar character or indefinable tone analogous to the effect of a general hue or tint, or of the combination of colors in a painting: said especially of tendency or style in writing or speaking. The Castilian poet has succe fully given to what he adopted the coloring of his own national manners. Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 74. 5. A specious appearance; pretense; show: as, the story has a coloring of truth. The usurpations of the legislature might be so flagrant and so sudden as to admit of no specious colouring . A. Hamilton, Federalist, No. 49. 6. In music, same as colorature.-7. The commercial name for a preparation of caramel used to color soups and gravies. See caramel, 1.Bronze coloring. See bronze.