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Colours vs Bunting - What's the difference?

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Colours is a related term of bunting.


As a noun colours

is .

As a verb colours

is (colour).

As a proper noun bunting is

a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist rh bunting (fl 1923).

colours

English

Alternative forms

* colors (US)

Noun

(head)
  • English plurals
  • (plurale tantum, nautical) The national flag flown by a ship at sea.
  • (plurale tantum) The British military ceremony of raising the flag.
  • (sports, snooker) The balls that score more than one point in snooker. Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (colour)

    • bunting

    English

    (wikipedia bunting)

    Etymology 1

    Possibly from dialect , hence the material used for that purpose.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
  • (nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
  • Flags considered as a group.

    • Etymology 2

    (Emberiza)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus Emberiza , having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
    • Derived terms
    * * corn bunting * indigo bunting * painted bunting * reed bunting * snow bunting

    Etymology 3

    See bunt

    Verb

    (head)