coloured

adjective

1. 1

   British standard spelling of colored.

   The last quarrel arose from Mr[.] Pompeau’s being more sweet upon Miss Feliciana Woodland, a coloured spinster, than suited Mrs. Pompeau’s ideas of decorum.

   For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of coloredAlternative form of colored.

   2018 Ticket taker, "Struggling Against the Perception of Facts", Anne with an E, season 2, episode 8, 13 minutes On this train we put the coloureds to work.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of coloursimple past and past participle of colour

Forms

plural

coloureds

comparative

more coloured

superlative

most coloured