(n.) Applied by the poets to things that show or suggest interweaving of colours, or embroidery, esp. to the prismatic colouring of the rainbow. But used by some modern writers in sense of 'colouring, dye', apparently from misunderstanding their predecessors.
1869 LOWELL Seaweed iv, The same wave that rims the Carib shore With momentary brede of pearl and gold.
From the OED:
(n.) Applied by the poets to things that show or suggest interweaving of colours, or embroidery, esp. to the prismatic colouring of the rainbow. But used by some modern writers in sense of 'colouring, dye', apparently from misunderstanding their predecessors.
1869 LOWELL Seaweed iv,
The same wave that rims the Carib shore
With momentary brede of pearl and gold.