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   coloured

   /ˈkʌləd/

   adjective

   • 1. having a colour or colours, especially as opposed to being black, white, or neutral: "strings of coloured lights"
   • ▪ imbued with an emotive or exaggerated quality: "highly coloured examples were used by both sides"
   • 2. wholly or partly of non-white descent. dated, offensive
   • 3. used as an ethnic label for people of mixed racial or ethnic origin: South African "there was a drive to recruit coloured, black, and Indian members"

   noun

   • 1. a person who is wholly or partly of non-white descent. dated, offensive
   • 2. a person of mixed descent usually speaking Afrikaans or English as their mother tongue: South African "the ANC was not making much progress among Indians or mixed-race Coloureds"
   • 3. clothes, sheets, etc. that are any colour but white: "she wouldn't mix her whites with her coloureds on wash day"

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