What does "colored" mean?
Colored: Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.Of some other color than black or white.
- 3.(Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
- 4.(Bot.) Of some other color than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray. Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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