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People of colour

noun
1.
A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks).  Synonyms: color, colour, people of color.






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"People of colour" Quotes from Famous Books



... facts, which prove that the Indians, and in general all the people of colour, at the moment of being stung, suffer like the whites, although perhaps with less intensity of pain. In the day-time, and even when labouring at the oar, the natives, in order to chase the insects, are continually giving one another smart slaps ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt

... unbroken range of forest covers each bank of the river, saving here and there where a hut discovers itself, inhabited by free people of colour, with a rood or two of bared ground about it; or where the wood-cutter has erected himself a dwelling and cleared a few acres for pasturage. Sometimes you see level ground on each side of you for two or three hours at ...
— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton



Words linked to "People of colour" :   person of colour, people of color, person of color, color, race, colour



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