of color
Nonwhite; of a race other than white, for example blackNonwhite; of a race other than white, for example black.
» A roll of color film, please.
Meaning
2 senses(US, not comparable)Nonwhite; of a race other than white, for example black.
farbig
цветно́йcvetnój
(historical, not comparable)Belonging to a category of people with mixed black and white ancestry in the Americas in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:of color.
Examples
86 sentencesA roll of color film, please.
I'd like a roll of color film, please.
Out of the colors, I like bright red.
Серед кольорів мені подобається яскраво-червоний.
Tom doesn't like to use the term "a person of color" because he thinks it implies that white people have no color.
ruТому не нравится использовать термин "человек цвета", потому что он думает, что это подразумевает, что у белых людей нет цвета.
deTom verwendet den Begriff „Farbiger“ nicht gern, weil er meint, dass dieser aussage, Weiße hätten keine Farbe.
One roll of color film, please.
deEine Rolle Farbfilm, bitte!
Translations
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Origin
Attested since the late 18th century, initially in reference to a category of mixed-race (Attested since the late 18th century, initially in reference to a category of mixed-race (partially black, partially white) people in the Americas; compare French de couleur (attested since at least 1779 in gens de couleur), Spanish de color. The phrase continued in occasional use throughout the 1800s and 1900s and was used by e.g. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, around which time its modern meaning began to take shape. Its use by black activists picked up from the 1970s (e.g. black women who used "women of color" at the National Women's Conference in 1977) onward, reaching wide circulation by the 1990s.
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