Coloured

¹

/ ˈkʌləd /

noun

1. old-fashioned,  an individual who is not a White person, esp a Black person

2. 1. a person of mixed ethnic parentage or descent

   2. a person of mixed ethnic descent speaking English or Afrikaans as their mother tongue

adjective

1. old-fashioned,  designating or relating to a Coloured person or Coloured people

coloured

²

/ ˈkʌləd /

adjective

1. possessing colour

2. having a strong element of fiction or fantasy; distorted (esp in the phrase highly coloured )

Usage

The use of Coloured to refer to a person of mixed ethnic origin is likely to cause offence and should be avoided

Example Sentences

A council spokesman said the "coloured surfacing design represents an eye-catching but straightforward way of changing the dynamics of the street without the need for major civil work".

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To crack this, the team began to look at the object in all kinds of light – radio, visible, infrared and ultraviolet – like looking through different coloured glasses.

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In Pisa, a group with brightly coloured flares stormed the airport runway, halting flights for a time, while in Naples dockworkers blockaded the port.

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The British actor is pointing down to a brightly coloured, Argyle patterned pair, worn with brown leather sandals.

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The police team that found the three had earlier said they were on a routine patrol near Ramteertha hills in the Gokarna forest, which borders the tourist paradise of Goa, when they spotted brightly coloured clothes hung near a cave.

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