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单词 colored
释义 col·ored
I. \ˈkələ(r)d\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English coloured, from past participle of colouren to color — more at color
1. : marked by color : having or showing usually chromatic color
 < white and colored lights >
 < advertisements on colored paper >
sometimes : having a color other than the accustomed or expected
 < colored glass >
 < a green and a colored leaf >
2.
 a. : feigned, pretended
  < a colored ally >
 b. : glossed over : made to appear less extreme : palliated
  < his colored crimes >
 c. : adorned, embellished
  < the colored verse of Claudian — Arthur Symons >
  : made colorful
  < the pictures, colored and racy, which Captain Nichols' vivid account offered — W.S.Maugham >
  : exaggerated, slanted, biased
  < colored political news — F.L.Mott >
  < the prosecutor's well-colored evidence — Arthur Morrison >
 d. : oriented, aligned
  < politically colored labor unions >
3. sometimes capitalized
 a. : of some other race than the white; often : Negro or having some proportion of Negro blood
 b. : of, for, or relating to colored persons
  < a teacher in colored schools >
4. sometimes capitalized
 a. : of mixed race
  < the colored people, as contrasted with the Negroes of St. Thomas >
 b. Africa : of or relating to the Cape Colored
II. noun
(-s)
Usage: sometimes capitalized
1. : colored people
 < education of the colored >
2. : a colored person
 < a school for coloreds >
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