Colored
- imp. & p. p. of Color
- a. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
- a. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.
- a. Of some other color than black or white.
- a. Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.