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coloured Verb

— Having a colour or kind of colour. The wall was coloured red, and the floor was coloured white. — Having many colours; colourful. The singer wore a coloured shirt. — (often considered offensive) Having skin colour other than the white, most often black. In South Africa, many coloured people speak , but English is spoken mostly by whites.

coloured Noun

— (often considered offensive) A coloured person.

coloured

— adjective (= colored) having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination colored crepe paper the film was in color amber-colored heads of grain — adjective (= colored, dark, dark-skinned) having skin rich in melanin pigments National Association for the Advancement of Colored People dark-skinned peoples — adjective (= biased) favoring one person or side over another a biased account of the trial a decision that was partial to the defendant — adjective (= bleached, colored) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural a bleached blonde

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coloured English » English

colored dyed painted tinged slanted colour variegated one-sided dark-skinned dark colourful colorful color biased swarthy reddened red non-white bleached toned tinted tanned striped storied stained spotted sable pitchy person of colour person of color people of colour people of color multicoloured multicolored discoloured decorated colored person black

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Simple sentences

The first thing that came to my attention was the large sofa. It was covered in sober coloured leather, the seat and the back both looked wide and comfortable.

Altbier is a dark amber-coloured top-fermented beer from the Rhineland.

The conservative character of the seating furniture is offset by the brightly coloured accessories.

I have a pink-coloured car.

Around a mere at the end of the valley were gathered the brightly coloured wooden houses of an idyllic little town.

Mary is wearing a brown coat and long bronze-coloured boots.

I need coloured pencils.

Tom and Mary coloured some eggs for Easter.

Tom coloured the picture.

Movie subtitles

When we got ashore there were still a lot of those lemon-coloured guys waiting.

You wear a false beard and your eyebrows are coloured as is your hair.

A strange coloured man in a white South town.

Butter-coloured hair?

I see your daddy and a coloured man.

The coloured man looks to me like he's cryin'.

There's a whole lot of men sitting' together on one side. and one man keeps pointin' at the coloured man and yellin'.

They're takin' the coloured man away.

How about some coloured beads and wampum?

As he slowly recovered, he saw that the holy men collected tiny coloured stones.

I came in on a motorbike in wheat-coloured.

SUSAN: The coloured part is the ointment.

Don't answer back you different-coloured bastard.

You different-coloured bastard.

The outer arm, that was also observed in the previous survey, and the dark coloured areas in the inner parts of the Galaxy.

On coloured lips its blaze reflected my misery's dreadful need.

I sure hope there's some coloured folk on that boat.

Huh! coloured boy!

Wait! Y'aII ain't no coloured boy!

It is the French way of saying, I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.

It's so bland and soft and grey-coloured.

Butter-coloured hair? - That's him. I've had some words with him.

He wasn't no.he wasn't no coloured person.

Don't you ever eat with coloured people?

Guess you coloured boys think so too, eh?

And there were 4 or 5 coloured boys playing away there.

There was some coloured floodlighting on the building - made quite a glow in the sky.

On the top of the castle the three-coloured flag is waving.

I mean, you call the coloured chap inferior and what have you got?

You all heard what was said in the speech about working with coloured labour.

Ooh, I'm afraid the days are gone when one could impress the natives with a handful of coloured beads.

I don't need red and blue coloured smoke, brother.

Are they coloured?

How amazing it is that European eyes are usually coloured!

For instance, the people of Cheron must have once been mono-coloured.

You've combed the galaxy, and come up with mono-coloured trash, do-gooders and bleeding hearts.

Brought her coloured balls and bells and a Kelly - those clowns that won't lie down.

I have amethysts of two kinds; one that is black like wine, and one that is red like wine that one has coloured with water.

We have a coloured woman with us.

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