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adjective

Colored adj.

Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. "The lime rod, colored as the glede." "The colored rainbow arched wide."

Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. "His colored crime with craft to cloke."

Of some other color than black or white.

(Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. Opposite of white and caucasian.

Synonyms: coloured, dark-skinned.

(Bot.) Of some other color than green. "Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green." Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Colored" Quotes from Famous Books

... last days of September, the Belgians moving in and through Ghent in their rainbow-colored costumes, gave to the city a distinctively holiday touch. The clatter of cavalry hoofs and the throb of racing motors rose above the voices of the mobs that surged along ...

— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams

... pomps, feasts, coronations, and every great historic incident ... that has occurred here. The whole world cannot show another hall such as this, so tapestried with recollections." But in any case it is always apparent that the thought is colored by a New World nurture. From this freshness of view there proceeded one result, the searching, unembarrassed, yet sympathetic and, as we may say, cordial criticism of England in "Our Old Home." But it also gave rise to the second ...

— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop

... fact, it proved to be so. I made money that fall travelling through the towns and villages and giving open-air exhibitions in which the "ads" of Brooklyn merchants were cunningly interlarded with very beautiful colored views, of which I had a fine collection. When the season was too far advanced to allow of this, I established myself in a window at Myrtle Avenue and Fulton Street and appealed to the city crowds with my pictures. ...

— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis

... B.C., early in her reign, Makeda, Queen of Sheba, paid a ceremonial visit to the Court of King Solomon, coming with her entire court and a magnificent retinue bearing royal gifts of frankincense and balm, gold and ivory and precious stones. Her gorgeous caravan was bright with the many-colored plumes and silks of litters, blazing with the golden ornaments of elephant and camel caparisons, glittering with the ...

— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson

... were in plain sight, while the two parties were endeavoring to make a count. How many times they recounted them before agreeing on the numbers I do not know, for the four of us left with the cows became occupied by a controversy over the sex of a young Indian—a Blackfoot—riding a cream-colored pony. The controversy originated between Fox Quarternight and Bob Blades, who had discovered this swell among a band who had just ridden in from the west, and John Officer and myself were appealed to for our opinions. The Indian was pointed out to us across the herd, easily ...

— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams

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