See Also: coloured(dictionary)
self-coloured(dictionary)
Coloured vision(medicine)
rose-coloured(dictionary)
flesh-coloured(dictionary)
coloured 2, noun(dictionary)
coloured 1, adjective(dictionary)
Cape Coloured(dictionary)
rose-coloured(dictionary)
straw-coloured(dictionary)

coloured (iou)



coloured adjective & noun. Also *colored. LME.
[from COLOUR verb, noun: see -ED1, -ED2.]
A. adjective.
Having colour (strictly, exclusive of black or white); having been coloured. Also fig., (of literary style etc.) embellished, adorned, made picturesque; imbued with a particular tone or character, conditioned, influenced. LME.
coloured hearing accompaniment of the hearing of sounds with the perception of certain colours.
W. Gass They have some colored sheetsone lavender, one rose, one wine. C. Hayes Coloured pencils have the same graphic qualities as pastels.
Made to look well; specious; feigned. LME-E17.
Having a specified colour or type of complexion. LME.
cream-coloured, flesh-coloured, fresh-coloured, mulberry-coloured, pink-coloured, sky-coloured, tabby-coloured, etc.
Having a skin of a colour other than white; wholly or partly of non-white descent; of or belonging to a black people; for the separate use of black people. (Cf. BLACK adjective 2b.) Now considered racially offensive. E17.
S. Longstreet Poor white and colored high yaller. New Yorker The 'colored balcony', with its separate entrance, once a regular feature of Southern theatres.
b. spec. (Coloured.) Designating South Africans of mixed descent; of, belonging to, or for the separate use of the South African population group of mixed descent. E19.
Cape Coloured: see CAPE noun1.
b. noun. Now racially offensive. Also (S. Afr.) Coloured. A person wholly or partly of non-white descent. Freq. in pl. M20.