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colored
English
Alternative forms
- Colored (American spelling)
- coloured (British spelling)
- Coloured (British spelling)
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: ?k?l?rd, IPA(key): /?k?l??d/
Adjective
colored (comparative more colored, superlative most colored)
- (American spelling) Having a color.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:colored
- Having a particular color or kind of color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- Influenced pervasively but subtly.
- (US, now dated and sometimes offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- 1898, William H. Chenery, The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 38:
- […] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion.
- 1898, William H. Chenery, The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 38:
- (South Africa, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
Usage notes
Referring to people—in 2006 British anthropological surveys by Peter J. Aspinall et al, out of 75 general population respondents who identified as “mixed race” and one who did not, none found the term “coloured” offensive. Out of 311 student respondents who identified as “mixed race” and 15 who did not, 11 found the term “coloured” offensive.
Coordinate terms
(mixed-race):
- Asian
- black, Black
- white, White
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
colored (plural coloreds)
- (American spelling, US, now dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.
- 2005, "Creed, OK", Carnivàle episode 17
- When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part.
Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.
- When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part.
- 2005, "Creed, OK", Carnivàle episode 17
- (South Africa) A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian).
- (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
Translations
Verb
colored
- (American spelling) simple past tense and past participle of color
Further reading
- color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
- cedorol, croodle, crooled, decolor
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palomino
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish palomino, from paloma (“dove, pigeon”) + diminutive suffix -ino.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pæl??mi?n??/
- (US) enPR: p?l-?-m??n?, IPA(key): /pæl??mi?no?/
Noun
palomino (plural palominos)
- A horse with a golden-colored coat and a white or cream-colored mane and tail.
Translations
Spanish
Etymology
From paloma (“dove, pigeon”) +? -ino (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /palo?mino/, [pa.lo?mi.no]
Noun
palomino m (plural palominos)
- palomino
- squab (baby pigeon, baby dove, dove chick)
- skid mark (visible stain left on underpants)
- pigeon droppings
Related terms
- palomina
Descendants
- ? English: palomino
Further reading
- “palomino” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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