"Color" = "information"?!

[sagehen]

>>>From Slashdot:
>
>"[Mossberg] declined to give any _color_ about the questions he and
>Swisher are preparing [for the conference]."
>
>-Wilson
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We talk sometimes of a "colorable hypothesis," for instance, which suggests
a somewhat similar way of using "color;" i.e., providing detail, example,
&c.
~Alison
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