Word: colourant
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Bookman--"Local Colour and Some Recent Novels," by F. T. Cooper...
Whereas the enjoining of an uniform colour, in clothing of the under-graduates, and prohibiting a certain snecies of materials in their apparel. will have a great tendency to lessen the expense of dress, [which, at present, constitutes too large a proportion of the collegiate charges], while, at the same time, the appearance will be more academical...
...summer vacation, be provided with coats of blue gray, being a mixture of deep blue and white wool, as nearly as may be, seven eighths of the blue, and one eighth of the white, or, if that cannot conveniently be obtained, of a dark blue colour, -and with waist-coats and breeches of the same colour...
That the freshmen who shall be admitted into the University in the year 1787 and afterwards shall be provided with coats of the colour first mentioned, and with waist-coats and breeches as last mentioned, and shall continue, provided with clothes of these specified colours while they remain under-graduates...