| 单词 | person of colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasperson of colour P11. Originally and chiefly U.S. of colour: designating a person who is not white-skinned, esp. a black person, as man of colour, person of colour, people of colour, woman of colour, etc. [Compare French de couleur (1779 or earlier in gens de couleur people of colour, 1789 or earlier in homme de couleur man of colour; in Old French in general sense ‘having a colour, coloured’ (c1170)) and Spanish de color (1748 in mujer de color woman of colour, in the passage translated in quot. 1758 at coloured adj. 3b, also 1748 in gente de color people of colour; 13th cent. in general sense ‘having a colour, coloured’), both used to designate a person who is not white-skinned. Compare earlier coloured adj. 3b.] ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun] person of colour1786 buck1800 coloured1832 Indiano1836 nigger1843 skepsel1844 native1846 non-white1864 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 monk1903 non-European1906 golliwog1916 wog1921 non-European1925 gook1935 boong1941 jungle bunny1966 Indio1969 1786 M. Smeathman (title) in Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. (1916) 2 501 Plan for a settlement, to be made near Sierra Leone, and intended more particularly for the service and happy establishment of blacks and people of color. 1788 Mass. Centinel 30 July 155/3 ‘It is a very dark night,’ says Cato, to one of his brethren of colour. 1797 B. Edwards Hist. Surv. St. Domingo i. 1 The inhabitants..were composed of three great classes: 1st, pure whites. 2d, people of colour, and blacks of free condition. 3d, negroes in a state of slavery... The class which, by a strange abuse of language, is called people of colour, originates from an intermixture of the whites and the blacks. 1803 Naval Chron. 9 111 The Bermudian pilots are men of colour. 1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 6 A free person of colour is now entitled to give evidence against a white, in any Court of Justice, upon producing his privilege papers. 1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 11 The..pleasant expression of countenance of a young woman of colour. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. vii. 57 She is a woman of colour. 1907 Nature 17 Jan. 265/2 The crimes of a few negroes exasperate white people so much that they forget the kindly ways of the average man of colour. 1911 C. Hayford Ethiopia Unbound xiii. 154 Though he immensely dislike men of colour, he thought it politic outwardly to be on the best of terms with the leaders of the people. 1985 P. Abrahams View from Coyaba iv. i. 210 You are a man of colour, Dr Brown, you know the state of men of colour in our world and in our time. 2004 M. M. Lewis Scars of Soul ii. x. 186 Over the past thirty years hiphop has invented a new matrix by which people of color..established their own companies, becoming millionaires without conforming to the Wasp style of corporate America. < as lemmas |
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