Meaning of rainbowy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling a rainbow.
2. Pertaining to a positively viewed diversity in gender and/or sexuality.
   informal

Examples

“1828-1830, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry a misty glory, an intangible rainbowy lustre”

“His shape was all human except the head and hands and feet; every bit of him was covered with fish-scales all rainbowy.”

“He saw how it made the water have rainbowy speckles on it, that wink different colors as the water splashed and splodged.”

“And if it were all fluid, if it were kind of rainbowy kinds of genders, who could oppress whom?”

“New Your City's Oscar Wilde Bookshop, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year (making it the oldest gay and lesbian bookstore in the world), has shied away from “rainbowy sideline items because there are so many stores around us selling those items," says owner Kim Brinster.”

“No matter, however, how rainbowy post-communist queer people imagine the West, as depicted in the films of West-bound queer migration analysed in this chapter, they cannot be exempt from the inevitable disappointment”

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