Colors

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Middle English: from Old French colour (noun), colourer (verb), from Latin color (noun), colorare (verb).


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colors (n.)

"flag of a regiment or ship" 1580s, from color (n.). Hence color-guard (1820), originally the soldiers assigned to guard the colors of the regiment, color-bearer(1855), the one who carries the regimental flag, and to do something with flying colors "successfully" (1690s).