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coloured¹
- /ˈkʌl.əd/ UK
adjective more coloured · most coloured
- British standard spelling of colored. The last quarrel arose from Mr[.] Pompeau’s being more sweet upon Miss Feliciana Woodland, a coloured spinster, than suited Mrs. Pompeau’s ideas of decorum.
noun coloureds
- Alternative form of colored 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.
verb
- simple past and past participle of colour
Coloured²
adjective
- Alternative letter-case form of coloured (“nonwhite, or mixed-race”).
noun Coloureds
- Alternative letter-case form of coloured (“nonwhite or mixed-race person; Black”).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: multicoloured, varicoloured, particolored, bicolored, bicolor, colored, multicolored, multicolor, particoloured, bicolour, polychromatic, colorful, pied, bicoloured, polychrome, hued
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