colored

  1. Adjective.  Having a particular color or kind of color.
  2. Adjective.  Having prominent colors; colorful.
  3. Adjective.  Influenced pervasively but subtly.
  4. Adjective.  (US, older usage) Of skin color other than the white, particularly black.
  5. Adjective.  (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
  6. Noun.  (''demeaning or potentially offensive'') A colored person.
  7. Noun.  (''laundry'') A colored article of clothing.
  8. Verb.  (past of, color) .

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