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  • noun Plural form of colored.

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Examples

  • He owned a prosperous roadhouse with two distinct serving areas - a front end for white patrons and a back end for "coloreds" - something Williams said he just accepted as "the natural order of life."

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • He owned a prosperous roadhouse with two distinct serving areas - a front end for white patrons and a back end for "coloreds" - something Williams said he just accepted as "the natural order of life."

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • He owned a prosperous roadhouse with two distinct serving areas - a front end for white patrons and a back end for "coloreds" - something Williams said he just accepted as "the natural order of life."

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • He owned a prosperous roadhouse with two distinct serving areas - a front end for white patrons and a back end for "coloreds" - something Williams said he just accepted as "the natural order of life."

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • He owned a prosperous roadhouse with two distinct serving areas - a front end for white patrons and a back end for "coloreds" - something Williams said he just accepted as "the natural order of life."

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • Under white rule, hundreds of thousands of blacks and so-called coloreds, or people of mixed race, were forcibly removed from their homes to racially separate the society.

    In preparation for World Cup, the poor in Cape Town are being relocated 2010

  • In all fairness to Nom, my coloreds are always more vibrant than me.

    ‘ELECTION’ THE DOCUMENTARY 2008

  • (Soundbite of laughter) HUNTER-GAULT: Kau then turns to mixed-race South Africans referred to as coloreds, who carried a certain degree of social superiority over blacks under apartheid.

    Comedian Finds Something Funny About South Africa 2009

  • They and close to 8,000 other black students are here, 42 percent of the total, along with Indians, one a finalist in the festival and so-called coloreds, most the beneficiaries of law passed three years ago compelling higher education institutions to provide measures for the redress of past inequities forbidding such institutions to unfairly discriminate in any way, unapologetic affirmative action aimed at what is known here not as desegregation but transformation.

    CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2001 2001

  • The proposed new constitution - which would establish a parliament with three chambers, one each for whites, Indians and people of mixed race known as coloreds

    Reforming Apartheid Doesn't End Slavery 1994

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