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Coloured
1/ ˈʌə /
noun
old-fashionedan individual who is not a White person, esp a Black person
a person of mixed ethnic parentage or descent
a person of mixed ethnic descent speaking English or Afrikaans as their mother tongue
adjective
old-fashioneddesignating or relating to a Coloured person or Coloured people
coloured
2/ ˈʌə /
adjective
possessing colour
having a strong element of fiction or fantasy; distorted (esp in the phrase highly coloured )
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Example Sentences
When we visited earlier this month, some of the residents were sitting round a table in the dining area, making brightly coloured collages of flower baskets.
A brightly coloured slide taking employees from the top to the ground floor would seem more at home in Silicon Valley than China's industrial heartland.
It is among these blinking lights and brightly coloured rides that another Jackson statue can be found.
He is described as being about 4ft 10ins tall, with short orange coloured hair and may have travelled on buses around the city.
Surrounded by shelves stacked with brightly coloured paperbacks – with titles including Just For the Summer, Swept Away and The Friendship Fling – young women are milling around, chatting and flicking through books.
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