having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
An animal that incorporates more than one color in its coat.
Usually describes a pattern that has stripes of equal width in more than two colors. If these are a little wider and more boldly colored, this pattern may also be described as Roman, a term that refers to contrasting stripes of the same size.
Multicolor is a subtractive natural color process for motion pictures. Multicolor, introduced to the motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma Color process, was the forerunner of Cinecolor.