| 单词 | off-coloured |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈoff-ˌcoloured ˈoff-ˌcoloured adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > not of natural colour off-coloured1872 off-colour1926 1872 C. A. Payton Diamond Diggings 118 Often higher prices have been paid on the Fields, for large off-coloured (i.e. yellowish) stones. 1882 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 11 345 But the best of all his African workmen, he said, were the men from Mamre or Gnadendhal Moravian Mission stations, ‘off-coloured boys,’ of Hottentot stock. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Sept. 717/2 A rabble of races, white, black and off-coloured, thus inhabits the Southern Africa of to-day. 1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 June xi. 26/1 Neighborhood gossip or off-colored jokes were not exchanged in my father's presence. 1994 Science 17 June 1703/2 The inactive (iav) mutant..seems to be a neurotransmitter variant, although this does not also reveal itself as an off-colored fly. < as lemmas |
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