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Definition of Colored person
1. Noun. A United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive.
Language type: Archaicism, Archaism
Generic synonyms: Black, Black Person, Blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
Derivative terms: Colored
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colored Person
Literary usage of Colored person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1883)
"... and WM Beckner, were appointed commissioners Acts were also passed repealing
the capitation tax of one dollar on each male colored person above the age ..."
2. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1880)
"HIRAM R. REVELS, A colored person, AS SENATOR OF MISSISSIPPI, FEBRUARY 25, 1870.
MR. PRESIDENT, —The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"If, in such a raid as I have supposed, a colored person is merely wounded or
maimed, but is still capable of making complaint, and on appearing to do so, ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"By the first section of the ordinance It Is made unlawful for any colored person
to move Into and occupy as a* residence, place of abode, or to establish ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1902)
"In the eyes of the law a white and a colored person are equal, and neither has
any right to Insist that a person of his race or color shall be on the Jury ..."
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