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adjective

Colored adj.

Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. "The lime rod, colored as the glede." "The colored rainbow arched wide."

Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. "His colored crime with craft to cloke."

Of some other color than black or white.

(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.

(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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... rebelled against Domitian; and the third, Avidius Cassius, in the reign of M. Antoninus. The two last reigned but a few months, and were cut off by their own adherents. We may observe, that both Camillus and Cassius colored their ambition with the design of restoring the republic; a task, said Cassius peculiarly reserved for his ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon

... a little cithern by the strings, Shaped heartwise, strung with subtle-colored hair Of some dead lute player That in dead years had done delicious things. The seven strings were named accordingly; The first string charity, The second tenderness, The rest were pleasure, sorrow, ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

... marked by means of fire with the figures of various animals. Some wore coverings about the loins; others short cotton jerkins without sleeves: some wore tresses of hair in front. The chieftains had caps of white or colored cotton. When arrayed for any festival, they painted their faces black, or with stripes of various colors, or with circles round the eyes. The old Indian guide assured the admiral that many of them were cannibals. In ...

— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving

... this early hour made only a very perfunctory toilet, and wears a Bulgarian apron over a once brilliant, but now half worn out red dressing gown, and a colored handkerchief tied over her thick black hair, with Turkish slippers on her bare feet, comes from the house, looking astonishingly handsome and stately under all the circumstances. ...

— Arms and the Man • George Bernard Shaw

... soulfully. He gently put his arm around her waist, and with his other hand grasped her hand. Then he led her to a seat, gently forced her to sit down and himself sat down beside her. She dropped her eyes and toyed with the ribbons on the gay-colored bodice she was wearing. ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

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