Example sentences for: coloured

How can you use “coloured” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What, for example, does one do with a cup sullied by Coloured lips?

  • In my youth the acceptable term for Blacks was Negroes or Coloureds . Coloured seems to have come to North America from South Africa, where it actually refers to mulattoes, or descendants of mixed race.

  • Then, at about the same time when colored was anathematized (despite the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has still not changed its name), black was legislated by that community of speakers to supplant Negro and colored, though I cannot recall any riders requiring a capital B . ( Cape Colored —or, more properly, Coloured —is retained in South Africa with a specific denotation of a “person of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry” [ RHD Unabridged ], in which one must read White for “European” and dark-skinned for “African or Malayan.”

  • The picture is further confused by the term Cape coloured , South African English for a `person of racially mixed parentage.


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