Cape Colored

noun

1. a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cape Colored¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

And it is Cape Colored cuisine, inherited through his family, that has always inspired him.

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In the noisome slums that disfigure the outskirts of Cape Town, 200,000 Cape Colored live in fear of the Skolly Boys, a gang of Negro gangsters whose favorite murder weapon is a bicycle chain.

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Alongside the Bantus live 300,000 Indians, most of them shopkeepers and plantation laborers in sugar-growing Natal, and 1,100,000 Cape Colored, i.e., mulattoes, coffee-colored descendants of early Boer settlers.

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