Divers Colours [in garments].

We are told, in 2 Sam. xiii. 18, that kingsʹ daughters were arrayed in a garment of divers colours, and Dr. Shaw informs us that only virgins wore drawers of needle-work; so that when the mother of Sisera (Judges v. 30) says, “Have they not sped? Have they not divided the spoil? To Sisera a prey of divers colours, of divers colours of needle-work?” she means—is not the king’s daughter allotted to Sisera as a portion of his spoil? (See Coat of Many Colours.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Distaffina
Distemper
Distinguished Member of the Humane Society
Distraction
Distrait (French)
Dithyrambic
Dittany
Ditto
Dittoes (A suit of)
Divan (Arabic and Persian, diwan)
Divers Colours [in garments]
Divert
Dives
Divide
Divide and Govern
Divination
Divine
Divine (The)
Divine Doctor
Divine Pagan (The)
Divine Plant (The)

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Coat of many Colours. (Gen. xxxvii. 3)