high color

English

Alternative forms

• high colour

Noun

high color (countable and uncountable, plural high colors)

1. (computer graphics) graphics with two bytes of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 65536 different colors
2. (of a substance) a strong color
   • 1796, Hannah Glasse, The art of cookery, made plain and easy, London: T. Longman, page 318:

     […] put in as much tincture of saffron as will give them a high colour, but no currants […]

3. (of a person's appearance) a pinkness or redness of the face; having rosacea; having a flushed face
   • 1709 September 2, The Female Tatler, page 1:

     […] That when she had a high Colour she was very ill, and when she was pale, she was at Death's Door, […]

   • 1796 December, George Forster, “Article IV: Voyage Philosephique et Pittoresque, &c.–A Philosophical and Picturesque Journey along the Banks of the Rhine, to Liege, through Flanders, Holland, &c. in the Year 1790”, in Analytical Review; Or, History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, page 592:

     […] Their features are strongly marked, and their bodies are very fleshy, and cumbrous: they have a high colour in their cheeks, and the complexion is fair enough […]

Coordinate terms

• deep color
• true color