coloration

Etymology

From French coloration, from Latin colōrātiō.

noun

1. The act or art of coloring.
2. The quality of being colored.
3. (music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
4. (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
5. Political tendency.
   Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents. 1968, Bernard Cosman, Robert Jack Huckshorn, Republican Politics, page 88
   The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration. 2014, Kevin P. Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition, page 175