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Curiously I’d oil peacocks giving wonderful colour effects (13)

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I believe the answer is:

kaleidoscopic

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'curiously i'd oil peacocks giving wonderful colour effects' is the definition.
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'curiously i'd oil peacocks' is the wordplay.
'curiously' indicates an anagram.
'id'+'oil'+'peacocks'='idoilpeacocks'
'idoilpeacocks' with letters rearranged gives 'KALEIDOSCOPIC'.

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(Other definitions for kaleidoscopic that I've seen before include "Showing constant change (of colours?)" , "Multi-coloured" , "Showing changing colours" , "constantly changing in form" .)

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