01 a. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
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Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.“His colored crime with craft to cloke.” — Spenser.
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Of some other color than black or white.
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Of some other color than white; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. Opposite of white and caucasian.(Ethnol.)
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Of some other color than green.(Bot.)“Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green.” — Gray.