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colored person

n. a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive [syn: colored]

Usage examples of "colored person".

Unless some other colored person turns Pickens in he'll never be found.

That's a long while to be with one corporation in the States, specially for a colored person.

There was an occasional alligator swimming comfortably along in the canal, and an occasional picturesque colored person on the bank, flinging his statue-rigid reflection upon the still water and watching for a bite.

There a colored person was less conspicuous, and here in New York you can go as unnoticed as you care to.

The only problem, so far as Major Kelly could see, was that Danny Dew was a Negro, a colored person, so dark that he hinted of blue.

If you expect a colored person to get deeply interested in a tract when his stummuck is empty, you expect too much.