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colour proud

colour proud is the alternative form of colour-proud.

Meaning of colour-proud

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

Forms of colour proud

comparativemore colour proud
superlativemost colour proud

Questions about colour proud

What is colour proud the alternative form of?
Colour proud is the alternative form of colour-proud.

Words near colour proud in the dictionary

  1. colour men
  2. colour of someone's money
  3. colour outside the lines
  4. colour pencil
  5. colour pencils
  6. colour proud
  7. colour retention agent
  8. colour retention agents
  9. colour revolution
  10. colour revolutions
  11. colour scheme

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colour proud (page history and authors); colour-proud (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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