单词 | all-coloured |
释义 | all-colouredall-coloredadj. 1. Of many different colours; esp. multicoloured, variegated. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > many colours all-coloured1605 multicolorate1651 polychrome1819 polychromic1825 multicoloured1845 polychromatic1848 thousand-hued1852 polychromed1857 polychromous1880 multicolour1881 polychromatous1889 multiple-colour1899 multi1970 panchromatic1971 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 288 All kindes of sweet all-coloured Roses. 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 10 All-colour'd Iris, Juno's messenger. 1765 H. Walpole in Lett. Countess Suffolk (1824) II. 314 Huge hunting-pieces in frames of all-coloured golds. 1872 Naut. Mag. Nov. 950 Their own dark eyes and olive faces, and gay all-colored dress. 1880 J. Ruskin Bible of Amiens i. 3 All-coloured velvets, pearl-iridescent colombettes. 1992 Isaac Asimov's Sci. Fiction Mag. July 136 An iridescent crack began to spread across the blackness..like an all-colored piece of lightning hardened into a great jagged sword. 2. a. Originally and chiefly U.S. Consisting entirely of black, esp. African-American, people; (during the era of racial segregation in the United States) intended for the use of African Americans exclusively. See coloured adj. 3c. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [adjective] > racist > segregated all-coloured1914 segregated1948 1914 Southern Reporter 63 171/2 He was as likely to get and did get, as fair and impartial a trial before an all white jury as he would have had before an all colored, or a mixed, jury. 1958 Times 13 Aug. 5/4 Whose last musical, also with an all-coloured cast, was Carmen Jones. 1968 W. A. Heaps Wandering Workers ii. 30 These youngest in Georgia go to an all-colored school—the mixing rule does not go in our county in spite of the law. 1994 H. L. Gates Colored People v. 65 They taught at colored colleges, preached to colored congregations,..and, after the fifties, even fought to keep alive the tradition of the segregated all-colored schools. b. South African. Usually with capital initial in the second element. Consisting entirely of Coloured people; (during the period of apartheid) intended for the use of Coloured people exclusively. See coloured adj. 3d. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [adjective] > racist > given over to black people negroized1864 all-coloured1947 1947 Officlal Year Bk. Union S. Afr. 1946 xxv. 14 It would be in the best interests of the country, if an ‘all coloured’ advisory body were appointed instead of a joint European-coloured Board, as originally contemplated. 1974 A. J. Venter Coloured xlvi. 479 If Mr Vorster's Government was so intent on letting Coloureds run their own affairs, why was it necessary to appoint another White man as rector of the all-Coloured University of the Western Cape? 1983 K. W. Grundy Soldiers without Politics viii, 163 All-Coloured commandos have been formed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1605 |
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