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Colored
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- 1 Having a color. US
"Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of colored (“non-white, or mixed race”). alt-of, not-comparable
- 3 Having a particular color or kind of color. US, in-compounds
"The room was red, with a dark-colored rug."
- 4 Having prominent colors; colorful. US
"The singer wore a colored shirt."
- 5 Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way. US
"Mr. Brewer gave me his version of the history of the Conference of Studio Unions. It appeared to me then and appears to me now to have been a very colored view."
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- 6 Of skin color other than white; in particular, black. US, dated, offensive, usually
"[…] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion."
- 7 Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.) Botswana, Namibia, South-Africa, US, Zimbabwe, capitalized, sometimes
"Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites."
- 8 Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense). US, historical
"a colored drinking fountain"
- 1 having skin rich in melanin pigments; wordnet
- 2 having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination wordnet
- 3 (used of color) artificially produced; not natural wordnet
- 4 favoring one person or side over another wordnet
- 1 A colored article of clothing. US
- 2 a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive wordnet
- 3 A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person. South-Africa, US
- 4 A colored (nonwhite) person. US, dated, offensive
"When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part. / Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un."
- 1 simple past and past participle of color US, form-of, participle, past
Etymology
From color + -ed.
From color + -ed.
From color + -ed.
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