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The females . . . resemble each other in their
general type of coloration.

Darwin.

Col"or*a*ture (?; 135), n. [Cf. G.
coloratur, fr. LL. coloratura.] (Mus.)
Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments,
runs, or rapid passages.

Col"or-blind (?), a. Affected
with color blindness. See Color blindness, under
Color, n.

Col"ored (?), a. 1.
Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

The lime rod, colored as the glede.

Chaucer.

The colored rainbow arched wide.

Spenser.

2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to
appear well; as, a highly colored description.
Sir G. C. Lewis.

His colored crime with craft to cloke.

Spenser.

3. Of some other color than black or
white.

4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color
than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having
negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored
people.


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