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coloured

1 adjective
     
col‧oured1 British English ; colored American English
1

brightly/highly/richly etc coloured

having a bright colour such as red, blue, or yellow etc, or a deep shade of a particular colour, but not black, white, or plain
2 having a colour other than black or white:
coloured glass
a cream-coloured sweater
3 taboo old-fashioned a very offensive word used to describe someone who is a member of a race of people with dark or black skin. Do not use this word.
4 used in South Africa to describe someone whose parents or grandparents were not of the same race as each other
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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