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colour'd

colour'd is the archaic form of coloured.

colour'd is the simple past and past participle of colour.

Meaning of coloured

Adjective

coloured (comparative more coloured, superlative most coloured)

  1. British standard spelling of colored.
    • The last quarrel arose from Mr[.] Pompeau’s being more sweet upon Miss Feliciana Woodland, a coloured spinster, than suited Mrs. Pompeau’s ideas of decorum.1832 December 14, “Delicate Distresses”, in James K. Cook, editor, Mississippi Journal and Natchez Advertiser, volume I, number 8, Natchez, Miss.: N. Wooster, →OCLC, page [4], column 4

Meaning of colour

Verb

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)

  1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

See all 3 meanings of colour

Forms of colour'd

comparativemore colour'd
superlativemost colour'd
alternative formcolour’d

Words formed from colour'd

Questions about colour'd

What is colour'd the archaic form of?
Colour'd is the archaic form of coloured.

Words near colour'd in the dictionary

  1. colour TVs
  2. colour up
  3. colour wash
  4. colour wheel
  5. colour wheels
  6. colour'd
  7. colour-blind
  8. colour-blindness
  9. colour-code
  10. colour-coded
  11. colour-codes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colour'd (page history and authors); coloured (page history and authors); colour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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