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Coloured

//ˈkʌl.əd// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    British standard spelling of colored.

    "For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of coloured (“nonwhite, or mixed-race”). alt-of, not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    having skin rich in melanin pigments; wordnet
  2. 2
    having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination wordnet
  3. 3
    (used of color) artificially produced; not natural wordnet
  4. 4
    favoring one person or side over another wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of colored. UK, alt-of, alternative

    "2018 Ticket taker, "Struggling Against the Perception of Facts", Anne with an E, season 2, episode 8, 13 minutes On this train we put the coloureds to work."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of coloured (“nonwhite or mixed-race person; Black”). alt-of
  3. 3
    a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of colour form-of, participle, past

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