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   col·ored

   /ˈkələrd/

   adjective

   • 1. having a color or colors, especially as opposed to being black, white, or neutral: "strings of colored lights"
   • ▪ imbued with an emotive or exaggerated quality: "highly colored examples were used by both sides"
   • 2. wholly or partly of nonwhite descent. dated, offensive
   • ▪ relating to people who are wholly or partly of nonwhite descent: dated, offensive "a colored club"
   • 3. used as an ethnic label for people of mixed racial or ethnic origin. South African

   noun

   • 1. a person who is wholly or partly of nonwhite descent. dated, offensive
   • 2. a person of mixed ethnic origin speaking Afrikaans or English as their mother tongue. South African
   • 3. clothes, sheets, etc. that are any color but white: "she wouldn't mix her whites with her coloreds on wash day"

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