1. colouring - Noun
2. colouring - Adjective
3. colouring - Verb
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
the act or process of changing the color of something
a digestible substance used to give color to food
Source: WordNet...he had to admit to a faint admiration (faint as angostura colouring gin and water) Anthony Burgess
We received our colouring from the Norsemen, hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones who sacked Rome. Fear only feeble old age and death in bed. Don't forget who you are. Janet Fitch
I usually have a lip balm in my bag and mascara as well. I don't really wear much make-up, but I like mascara because I've got fair colouring. Lily Cole
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera. Robert Carlyle
Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I'll have a cup of coffee. Robert D. Hare
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. William Wordsworth