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Colour, Colours

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A man of colour. A negro, or, more strictly speaking, one with negro blood. (See Colours.)

“There are three great classes: (1) the pure whites; (2) the people of colour; (3) negroes and mulattoes.”—Edwards: St. Domingo, i.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Collywobbles
Cologne
Colon
Colophon
Coloquintida or Colocynth
Coloquintida (St.)
Colorado (U.S. America)
Colossal
Colossus or Colossos (Latin, Colossus)
Colour
Colour, Colours
Colours
Colours for Church Decoration
Colours of the University Boats, etc
Colours
Colours
Colours
Colours Nailed to the Mast (With our), à outrance
Colour-blindness
Colour Sergeant
Colour (verb)