noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
colouring book
food colouring British English , food coloring American English
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Dilute a little food colouring with water.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Paint on other facial features and the suckers on the tentacles with black colouring .
■ NOUN
food
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Divide it among four small bowls, then mix a few drops of food colouring into each one.
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Add it to the icing sugar, together with a few drops of yellow food colouring .
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Paint the anchor with silver food colouring and place on the deck.
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Add red food colouring to one jar and blue dye to another.
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Paint the bottom half of the white candles with blue food colouring .
■ VERB
use
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Tinta is made from the negra mole grape and is used for colouring and for sweetening.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high complexion/colouring
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Tone down high colouring by using a green moisturiser or under-make-up base before applying foundation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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People with very light colouring need to protect themselves from the sun as they burn easily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But some leading shampoos and conditioners contain small amounts of bleaching agents to promote blonde colouring .
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Hair is naturally composed of lots of different tints, so streaking, lowlights and selected colouring gives a more flattering effect.
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Keep him strong, keep him young, and, whatever his colouring , keep him gorgeous.
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Penelope had the same colouring and generally romantic air, but was shorter and dumpier with rather fat legs.
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The colouring of Scandinavian cattle in the past was also characteristic in that many showed variations of the colour-sided cline.
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This could help solve one of the textile industry's biggest problems, removing colouring and chemicals from waste water.
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Tilda, in spite of her lack of success with the convent's colouring books, wished to be a marine painter also.
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You can choose for colouring from white, through countless pinks, to bright and even deep red.