Cape Coloured

British

noun

(formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethic origin

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But the omission of D'Oliveira - born a Cape Coloured and now naturalised Englishman - is likely to draw comment from many who normally take little interest in the game.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012

District Six was the home of the Cape Coloured and Malay peoples, a place of enormous symbolic importance – Cape Town's Sophiatown.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010

British, 84,000 Chinese, 138,000 Prisoners of War, 1,500 Cape Coloured, 4,000 West Indians, 11,000 South African natives, 100 Fijians, 7,500 Egyptians, 1,500 Indians—so run the principal items.

From Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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