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colour-proud

colour-proud adjective: favouring people of one's own skin colour over others; racist, racially prejudiced.

Adjective

colour-proud (comparative more colour-proud, superlative most colour-proud)

  1. Favouring people of one's own skin colour over others; racist, racially prejudiced.
    • To the Frenchman, of course, black and white are both alike. He is not so colour-proud as we are. And an Algerian negro is a fully-fledged French citizen.1924, Cherry Kearton, The Shifting Sands of Algeria, London: Arrowsmith
    • Lace had at the back of his mind a desire to go combo. He had had it ever since he came in contact with the comely lubras of the district. But at first it had been kept in check by what he called his Sense of Decency. Not that he was a prude. Apparently he was only colour-proud.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 132

Forms of colour-proud

comparativemore colour-proud
superlativemost colour-proud
alternative formcolour proud
alternative formcolor-proud
alternative formcolor proud

Questions about colour-proud

What does colour-proud mean?
Colour-proud means favouring people of one's own skin colour over others; racist, racially prejudiced.
What part of speech is colour-proud?
Colour-proud is an adjective.

Words near colour-proud in the dictionary

  1. colour-codes
  2. colour-coding
  3. colour-coordinate
  4. colour-coordinated
  5. colour-fast
  6. colour-proud
  7. colour-struck
  8. colourability
  9. colourable
  10. colourableness
  11. colourably

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