Colored
['kʌlɚd]
Definition
(adj.) having skin rich in melanin pigments; 'National Association for the Advancement of Colored People'; 'dark-skinned peoples' .
(adj.) having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; 'colored crepe paper'; 'the film was in color'; 'amber-colored heads of grain' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Color
(a.) Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
(a.) Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.
(a.) Of some other color than black or white.
(a.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
(a.) Of some other color than green.
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Examples
- Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, not to say high-colored, but with a bloom like a Chiny rose. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At least one-half of the force required for this service might be taken from the colored troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Still better, however, is nitric acid, which if painted upon a colored spot of this kind first renders it more distinctly yellow, then orange-brown. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Try lower down, and pick those that have no thorns, said Amy, gathering three of the tiny cream-colored ones that starred the wall behind her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- These two colored men were the two principal hands on the plantation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- His figures, which usually dealt with historical, mythological, or allegorical subjects, were executed in relief, and colored. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Don't want none o' your light-colored balls, said Dinah; cuttin' round, makin' b'lieve you's white folks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The furnace foreman is notified by the operator as to the temperature by means of small colored electric lights, located above the furnace. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That this solution has bleaching properties is shown by the fact that a colored cloth dipped into it loses its color, and unbleached fabrics immersed in it are whitened. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She was dressed quite respectably, and a colored man followed her, bringing along a small trunk. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In 1860, just before the war broke out there came to the train one afternoon, in Detroit, two fine-looking young men accompanied by a colored servant. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As if a woman were a mere colored superficies! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The occupation of the colored people was to furnish supplies for the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Dorothea colored with pleasure, and looked up gratefully to the speaker. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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