colouredcol‧oured1 British English, colored American English /ˈkʌləd $ -ərd/ ●●○ adjective

- The cages were full of brightly- coloured tropical birds.
- The front door was painted blue and had a coloured glass panel in it.
to be a particular colour► be: be red/green etc · The Japanese flag is white with a red circle in the middle.· Frogs are green, toads are brown. That's how you tell the difference.· "What colour is your car?'' "It's black.''
► coloured British /colored American having one or more colours and not black or white: · The front door was painted blue and had a coloured glass panel in it.· You can make Christmas decorations from almost anything -- beads, colored ribbons, sea shells -- anything.brightly coloured: · The cages were full of brightly- coloured tropical birds.
► tinted glass that is tinted has a slight colour, so that people cannot see through it, so that light does not shine too brightly through it: · The limousine had tinted windows, so we couldn't see who was inside.blue-tinted/green-tinted etc: · She wore a pair of pink-tinted glasses.
► gaily coloured/painted/decorated etc- Above me, the gaily painted signs of the taverns and food shops creaked in the wind and mocked my hunger.
- It took up half a block of Tollemarche Avenue and was gaily painted in red and white.
- The gaily painted striped poles of the merry-go-round figure in almost every work.
► richly coloured► rose-coloured glasses nouncolour/colorcolouring/coloringcolorationcolourant/colorantcolourist/coloristadjectivecoloured/coloreddiscoloured/discoloredcolourful/colorful ≠ colourless/colorlessmulticolouredcolour/colorverbcolour/coloradverbcolourfully/colorfully ≠ colourlessly/colorlessly