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parti
I think I may have asked this before, but cannot find this topic with Google.Would someone with an OED be kind enough to give me the etymology behind parti, as in parti-colored, i.e., motley or...
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"Partie coloured" appears in Tyndale's 1530 Bible. The "partie" is either from "party", meaning distinguished by color (c. 1385) which comes from the French "partir", or it is from the adverbial use...
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This is related to "depart" in the 16th-century sense "to separate", which was discussed in a recent thread.
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