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Colored   /kˈələrd/   Listen
verb
Color  v. t.  (past & past part. colored; pres. part. coloring)  
1.
To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. "The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color."
2.
To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. "He colors the falsehood of AEneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen."
3.
To hide. (Obs.) "That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight."


Color  v. i.  To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.


adjective
Colored  adj.  
1.
Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. "The lime rod, colored as the glede." "The colored rainbow arched wide."
2.
Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. "His colored crime with craft to cloke."
3.
Of some other color than black or white.
4.
(Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. Opposite of white and caucasian.
Synonyms: coloured, dark-skinned.
5.
(Bot.) Of some other color than green. "Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green." Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is.





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"Colored" Quotes from Famous Books



... was what this great room was: a charnel-house filled with the spoil of tombs and temples. The dim light fluttered down from quaint, triangular windows, set with a checker-work of brick-red and saffron-colored panes about a central design, a scarlet heart upon a white star, and within that a black scarabaeus. The white background of the walls threw into relief the angular figures on the frieze, scenes from old Egyptian ...
— The False Gods • George Horace Lorimer
... notice one thing," Jolly observed. "My waistcoat is fast losing its black spots. And it's redder than it was. The red berries certainly colored it ...
— The Tale of Jolly Robin • Arthur Scott Bailey
... for Henry's Mephistopheles—a twopence colored part, anyway. Of course he had his moments—he had them in every part—but they were few. One of them was in the Prologue, when he wrote in the student's book, "Ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil." He never ...
— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry
... ground floor, Lodise, who was nicknamed La Cocotte, and Flora, whom they called Balancoise, because she limped a little, the former always dressed as the Goddess of Liberty, with a tri-colored sash, and the other as a Spanish woman, with a string of copper coins in her carroty hair, which jingled at every uneven step, looked like cooks dressed up for the carnival. They were like all other women of the lower ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... bleak and cold. All through the melancholy, cheerless day, the first chill of autumn had been in the air. Toward evening the clouds had parted, showing a steel-colored sky in which the sun went down a great red ball, tinting the foliage across the river with a glow of crimson. A sun full of rich light ...
— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh


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