/kul"euhrd/ , adj.
1. having color.
2. Often Offensive. belonging wholly or in part to a race other than the white, esp. to the black race.
3. Often Offensive. pertaining to the black race.
4. influenced or biased: colored opinions.
5. specious; deceptive: The authorities detected a colored quality in her statement.
6. Bot. of some hue other than green.
n.
7. Often Offensive.
a. a black person.
b. the colored , black persons as a group.
8. See Cape Colored .
[ 1275-1325; ME; see COLOR, -ED 3 ]
Usage. 2, 3, 7. See black .