COLOURED

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coloured I. adjectiv

1. colorat;

dark-coloured de culoare închisă;

light-coloured de (o) culoare deschisă;

high-coloured foarte / viu / intens colorat.

2. pictat, vopsit.

3. de culoare, aparţinând altei rase decât celei albe (mai ales despe negri sau persoane având şi sânge de negru).

4. nuanţat (şi fig.).

5. (fig.) denaturat, deformat, falsificat; părtinitor; în culori false.

6. colorat, pitoresc, frumos.

7. plauzibil, verosimil, veridic, care stă în picioare, care se susţine.

coloured II. substantiv

(Africa de Sud) metis; mulatru.

“See here! You have lost a bow. Will anybody be so good as find a ribbon; a cherry-coloured ribbon?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Marianne coloured as she replied, "But most people do."

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

She stared, coloured, doubted, and was silent.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Catherine coloured, and said, “I was not thinking of anything.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

She coloured and hesitated.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She coloured and laughed.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Fanny coloured, and said nothing.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I coloured in replying that I believed it was.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Marianne coloured, and replied very hastily, "Where, pray?"

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Elizabeth coloured, and said: “A little.”

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)