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Colour People Refer Colouring Someone's Skin Person's Race

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Someone's c_____ is the colour of their skin. People often use colour in this way to refer to a person's race.Someone's colour is the colour of their skin. People often use colour in this way to refer to a person's race.
I don't care what colour she is.
He acknowledged that Mr Taylor's colour and ethnic origins were utterly irrelevant in the circumstances.
word colour
full-definition
noun
The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours.
'What colour is the car?'—'Red.'.
Her silk dress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.
Judi's favourite colour is pink.
The badges come in twenty different colours and shapes.
A colour is a substance you use to give something a particular colour. Dyes and make-up are sometimes referred to as colours .
...The Body Shop Herbal Hair Colour.
It is better to avoid all food colours.
...the latest lip and eye colours.
Someone's colour is the colour of their skin. People often use colour in this way to refer to a person's race.
I don't care what colour she is.
He acknowledged that Mr Taylor's colour and ethnic origins were utterly irrelevant in the circumstances.
Colour is a quality that makes something especially interesting or exciting .
She had resumed the travel necessary to add depth and colour to her novels.
A country's national colours are the colours of its national flag .
The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian national colours: green, red and white.
People sometimes refer to the flag of a particular part of an army, navy, or air force, or the flag of a particular country as its colours .
Troops raised the country's colors in a special ceremony.
...the battalion's colours.
A sports team's colours are the colours of the clothes they wear when they play.
I was wearing the team's colours.
verb
If you colour something, you use something such as dyes or paint to change its colour.
Many women begin colouring their hair in their mid-30s.
We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters.
The petals can be cooked with rice to colour it yellow.
They could not afford to spoil those maps by careless colouring.
If someone colours, their face becomes redder than it normally is, usually because they are embarrassed.
Andrew couldn't help noticing that she coloured slightly.
If something colours your opinion, it affects the way that you think about something.
The attitude of the parents must colour the way children approach school.
adjective
A colour photograph, picture, or film is one that shows things in all their colours, and not just in black, white, and grey .
There was a colour photo of me in the newspaper.
inflections colourscolouringcolouredcolouring
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