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English
Adjective
coloured (comparative more coloured, superlative most coloured)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of colored
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
Usage notes
See colored.
Derived terms
Noun
coloured (plural coloureds)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of colored
- 2018 Ticket taker, "Struggling Against the Perception of Facts", Anne with an E, season 2, episode 8, 13 minutes
- On this train we put the coloureds to work.
Verb
coloured
- (British spelling) simple past and past participle of colour
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