Having much color; colorful or brightly colored (an informal or archaic variant of 'colorful').
From 'color' + '-y' (English suffix forming adjectives). An older or dialectal adjective form, now largely superseded by 'colorful.'
This is a delightful archaic adjective that sounds playful and poetic—you might find it in 19th-century novels describing a 'colory' dress or sunset, before 'colorful' became standardized.
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