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colored

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colored
/kul"euhrd/, adj.
1. having color.
2. Often Offensive. belonging wholly or in part to a race other than the white, esp. to the black race.
3. Often Offensive. pertaining to the black race.
4. influenced or biased: colored opinions.
5. specious; deceptive: The authorities detected a colored quality in her statement.
6. Bot. of some hue other than green.
n.
7. Often Offensive.
a. a black person.
b. the colored, black persons as a group.
8. See Cape Colored.
[1275-1325; ME; see COLOR, -ED3]
Usage. 2, 3, 7. See black.

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