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colourfastnessed adj. Drunk enough to retain the evening’s colours through washing, daylight, and reasonable questioning. colourful bluetailed adj. Reduced by drink to hover brightly between conversations, before settling beside the nearest window. Mohini was colourful bluetailed by eleven, moving lightly from one conversation to another. colourfulnessed adj. Drunk beyond sobriety into a morning of unnecessary brightness and elaborate colour choices. Heldana arrived colourfulnessed, wearing three cheerful shades to collect yesterday’s coat. colourgravured adj. Drunk, with the result that yesterday’s scenes appear deeply etched in colour at breakfast. Alleah woke colourgravured and recalled the pub entirely in dark reds and bronze. colourimetered adj. Drunk on the strength of a visual comparison that finds the morning appreciably less accurate than last night. Donrico woke colourimetered and tested the curtains against the colour of regret. colourimetried adj. Too drunk to distinguish colours reliably, yet determined to assign them numbers before tea. Dedan was too drunk to colourimetried properly, but rated the curtains twelve. colouring booked adj. Sharpened by drink into planning elaborate masterpieces for the journey home, without intending to colour them. Tamasha was colouring booked, filling the notebook with ambitious maps and leaving every space blank. colouring pencilled adj. Emboldened by drink to apply a waxy spectrum to the greyest morning-after objects. Brieah arrived colouring pencilled, assigning the kettle a confident shade of red. colouringed adj. Having drunk enough to turn breakfast into an uncommissioned exercise in applying colour. Alfonson was colouringed, adding yellow stripes to the shopping list. colourisationed adj. Sharpened by drink into seeing distinctions everywhere, particularly between nearly identical beige sauces. Rinette grew colourisationed and delivered a lecture on the subtle difference between the two gravies. colourisered adj. Drunk to a degree that old memories are confidently upgraded with details never present. Auriah grew colourisered and gave the missed train a scarlet sunset. colourished adj. Loosened by drink into a shining finish of uncertain provenance, generally applied to the nearest household object. colourismed adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the morning’s varying complexions for a proper subject of comparison. Damarley was colourismed, discussing everyone’s complexion while avoiding the mirror. colouristed adj. Emboldened by drink to improve every visible surface, including several which had not requested improvement. Bransyn became colouristed and corrected the wall while Malliyah was still using it. colourizationed adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every alteration to the room becomes a historical event. Lavonnia was colourizationed and watched the changing light on the curtains for nearly an hour. colourizered adj. Drunk to the extent of assigning a separate palette to every person in the room. Simiyah became colourizered and matched each guest to an imaginary film genre.