colored

[colĀ·ored]

Having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination

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Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

Noun
a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

Adjective S.
having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"

Adjective
having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

Adjective S.
(used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"

Adjective S.
favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"

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imp. & p. p.
of Color

a.
Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

a.
Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.

a.
Of some other color than black or white.

a.
Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.

a.
Of some other color than green.


Colored

Col"ored , a. 1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
The lime rod, colored as the glede.
The colored rainbow arched wide.
2. Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis.
His colored crime with craft to cloke.
3. Of some other color than black or white. 4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. 5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green.
Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green.
&hand; In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood.

Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

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Usage Examples

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

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