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Coloured

1

/ ˈʌə /

noun

  1. old-fashionedan individual who is not a White person, esp a Black person

    1. a person of mixed ethnic parentage or descent

    2. a person of mixed ethnic descent speaking English or Afrikaans as their mother tongue

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adjective

  1. old-fashioneddesignating or relating to a Coloured person or Coloured people

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

coloured

2

/ ˈʌə /

adjective

  1. possessing colour

  2. having a strong element of fiction or fantasy; distorted (esp in the phrase highly coloured )

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Usage

The use of Coloured to refer to a person of mixed ethnic origin is likely to cause offence and should be avoided
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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.

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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.

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It is among these blinking lights and brightly coloured rides that another Jackson statue can be found.

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He is described as being about 4ft 10ins tall, with short orange coloured hair and may have travelled on buses around the city.

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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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