coloured

/ (ˈkʌləd) /

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adjective

possessing colour

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

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Words nearby coloured

colour bar, colour-blind, colour code, colour commentator, colour contrast, coloured, colourfast, colour filter, colourful, colour guard, colour index

British Dictionary definitions for coloured (2 of 2)

Coloured

/ (ˈkʌləd) /

noun plural Coloureds or Coloured

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

Southern African

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

adjective

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

usage for Coloured

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

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How to use coloured in a sentence

The organ gallery gets a strong white light from a row of long windows in the clerestory, which have not even coloured glass.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I smiled at her confusion and complimented her on the banner she was embroidering from a coloured plate.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The room was built of rose-coloured marble excepting the floor, which was tessellated in rose and grey.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An elderly ‘coloured’ woman said, to no-one in particular, “No, that little boy has nothing to worry about.”
South Africa Kicks Off Week Of Mourning Mandela|Mark Gevisser|December 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST

But Céline has never had a coloured person showing in their collection.
Céline's New Look|Erin Cunningham|September 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There was no vivacity in his putty-coloured features, but there were promptitude and decision in every abrupt gesture.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
As they entered, a liver-coloured hound that lay stretched before the fire growled lazily, and showed the whites of his eyes.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
I remember it well; a pale, creamy-coloured paper cover, good type, good paper.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Bright-coloured birds flew about among the bushes, but they had no songs for Alila and the hunter as they passed along.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
For about thirty feet from the ground this was painted in coloured stripes very much like a barber's pole.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike