colored
see also: Colored
Etymology
Colored
Adjective
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see also: Colored
Etymology
From
- (US) enPR: ʹkŭlərd, IPA: /ˈkʌləɹd/
colored
- (American spelling) Having a color.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:colored
- Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.
- Having a particular color or kind of color.
- The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- The singer wore a colored shirt.
- Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
- (US, now, dated and usually, offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- 1898, William H. Chenery, The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 38:
- […] 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.
- (South Africa, sometimes, capitalized) 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.)
- Synonyms: Eurafrican
- 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.
- (chiefly, historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
- a colored drinking fountain
- a colored hospital
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC ↗:
- New Orleans is a very dull town. It’s against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.
- French: coloré, de couleur
- German: farbig
- Portuguese: colorido/pintado de
- Russian: цветно́й
- French: de couleur
- German: farbig
- Portuguese: de cor
- Russian: цветно́й
- Spanish: de color
colored (plural coloreds)
- (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
- (South Africa) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
- Synonyms: Eurafrican
- (US, dated and offensive, American spelling) A colored (nonwhite) person.
- French: couleurs
- (American spelling) Simple past tense and past participle of color
Colored
Adjective
colored (not comparable)
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