Meanings of coloured wings in English

Are my dreams flitting round you like the moths with their many- coloured wings?

The Virgin is throned above, and surrounded by a glory of seraphim, with many- coloured wings.

She shook her head and the orange coloured wings in her hat waved to and fro.

We spotted the wide, pale- coloured wings of one gliding towards a hedge as we were leaving.

But there, just before him, lay one of the spoonbills, beating its great rose- coloured wings against the ground.

To see those large brilliantly- coloured wings droop, widen, and develop their markings, seemed little short of a miracle.

His coloured wings were rather tight, like the Sunflower's glory leaves, but he was wide awake-watchingthe candle.

Of course, by show time Hill was in full VS Angel mode, with runway waves, a pair of scarlet- coloured wings and a tartan miniskirt.

It then undergoes a series of metamorphoses to become the adult mayfly - a large insect, two inches long or thereabouts, with semi-transparent lemon- coloured wings.