forecolour
English
Alternative forms
- forecolor (North America)
Noun
forecolour (plural forecolours)
- Any colour which stands out among others.
- 1986, Robert Phelps Colette, Flowers and Fruit:
- Then the violet and the blues will be the forecolours of the crimson red, which crowns a piece of work caressed by conscious hands, on a series of stones whose grain itself is a matter of choice - [...]
- (computing) A prominent colour, especially one that is superimposed and visible over other colours.
- 2009, David Harrison, ated Functional Testing for Java-Swing:
- This marking is often done by setting the forecolour of the control.
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