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Definition of Colored
Colored

of Color

Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.

Of some other color than black or white.

Of some other color than white; specifically applied to Africans; as, a colored man; the colored people.

Of some other color than green.

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Colored Quotations

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
Shania Twain

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
Elvis Presley

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Harriet Tubman

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Susan B. Anthony

Colored Translations

colored in Latin is infucatus
colored in Spanish is coloreado


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