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Adjective

coloured

  1. Having a particular colour or kind of colour
    • The room was coloured red, with a dark-coloured rug.
  2. Having prominent colours; colourful
    • The singer wore a coloured shirt.
  3. Influenced pervasively but subtly
    • My opinions are coloured by my upbringing.
  4. (US, older usage, now demeaning) Of skin colour other than the white, particularly black.
    • Being of an older generation, they considered themselves "coloured ladies"
  5. (South African, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin colour.

Verb

coloured

  1. Simple past tense and past participle of colour.

See also

Wikipedia article on colour

 

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