British spelling variant of encolor; to color, dye, or tint something.
From 'en-' + 'colour' (British spelling of 'color'). This is the same word as 'encolor' but with British English orthography from the 17th century onward.
The British spelling shows how English literature split into variants—Shakespeare's contemporaries used 'encolour' while American English later standardized 'encolor'.
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