Brewer's: Divers Colours

[in garments ]. We are told, in 2 Sam. xiii. 18, that kings' daughters were arrayed in a garment of divers colours, and Dr. Shaw informs us that only virgins wore drawers of needle-work; so that when the mother of Sisera (Judges v. 30) says, “Have they not sped? Have they not divided the spoil? To Sisera a prey of divers colours, of divers colours of needlework?” she means—is not the king's daughter allotted to Sisera as a portion of his spoil? (See Coat Of Many Colours.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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