Regenbogenschnipsel
"Ein Regenbogen" is a rainbow. "Ein Schnipsel" is a little piece, a snippet.
Schnipsel is also one of those very rare words that can take 2 articles and the meaning remains the same - "das Schnipsel" is fine and so is "der Schnipsel". The only other one I know of is "der/das Sakko" (a suit jacket).
There is also one word that I know of that can take all three articles and has a different meaning with each:
der Band - is a volume of a book (Encyclopaedia Britannica for example)
die Band - is a musical band
das Band - is a ribbon, tape or ligament
Which is one reason why articles matter.
This was the view from my office window this morning just before 8.
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