Alternative letter-case form of colored (“non-white, or mixed race”)

(American spelling, US, now dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.

English Wikipedia has an article on:ColouredsWikipedia (South Africa) A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian).

(laundry) A colored article of clothing.

(American spelling) simple past and past participle of color

(American spelling) Having a color.

Having a particular color or kind of color.

Having prominent colors; colorful.

Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.

(US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.

(Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.) (South Africa, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian).

(in either the US or South African sense) (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people .