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farvet — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • colored adjective Having a particular color, especially a color other than plain black, white, or gray.
  • dyed adj Coloured using dye.

Senses

farvet is used for these senses in English:

  • colored (South Africa) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
  • dyed Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.
  • of color (chiefly, US) Nonwhite; of a race other than white, for example black. [from 18th c.]

colored — full definition

  1. adjective Having a particular color, especially a color other than plain black, white, or gray.
  2. adjective An outdated and now offensive term historically used to describe Black people or people of color in the US.

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