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Colored person   /kˈələrd pˈərsən/   Listen
Colored person

noun
1.
A United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive.  Synonym: colored.





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"Colored person" Quotes from Famous Books



... here that he had brought her. This would seem to be a most happy thing—but there are ducks and ducks. Poor little Quackalina knew the haughty quawk of the proud white ducks of Pekin. She knew that she would be only a poor colored person among them, and that she, whose mother and grandmother had lived in the swim of best beach circles and had looked down upon these incubator whitings, who were grown by the pound and had no relations whatever, would now have ...
— Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales • Ruth McEnery Stuart
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... might be such a kind lady as this. But the cruel Tryon who had left her—his mother would be some hard, cold, proud woman, who would regard a negro as but little better than a dog, and who would not soil her lips by addressing a colored person upon any other terms than as a servant. She knew, too, that Tryon did not live in Sampson County, though the exact location of his home was not clear ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt
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Words linked to "Colored person" :   colored, archaicism, blackamoor, archaism, negroid, negro, Black person, black


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