coloured
- IPA[ˈkʌləd]
英式
- having a colour or colours, especially as opposed to being black, white, or neutral；imbued with an emotive or exaggerated quality
- a person who is wholly or partly of non-white descent.；a person of mixed descent usually speaking Afrikaans or English as their mother tongue
noun: coloured, plural noun: coloureds
- 釋義
形容詞
- 1. having a colour or colours, especially as opposed to being black, white, or neutral strings of coloured lights brightly coloured birds are easier to see
- ▪ imbued with an emotive or exaggerated quality highly coloured examples were used by both sides
- 2. dated, offensive wholly or partly of non-white descent.
- 3. South African used as an ethnic label for people of mixed racial or ethnic origin there was a drive to recruit coloured, black, and Indian members
名詞
- 1. dated, offensive a person who is wholly or partly of non-white descent.
- 2. South African a person of mixed descent usually speaking Afrikaans or English as their mother tongue the ANC was not making much progress among Indians or mixed-race Coloureds
- 3. clothes, sheets, etc. that are any colour but white she wouldn't mix her whites with her coloureds on wash day
