coloreds
KUL-urdz/ˈkʌləɹdz/UKKUL-uhdz/ˈkʌlədz/
- 1Plural of colored.
The coloreds went into one basket and the whites into another.
Always rinse new coloreds separately, since they can bleed dye onto everything else.
Note
Only the noun takes this plural; the adjective colored never adds -s. On laundry day it means the clothes that are not white, sorted against the whites. Used of people, it carries the weight of the singular. In American use it is dated and offensive. In South Africa it names people of mixed black, white and Asian ancestry, so context decides which reading a listener hears.
coloreds is a form of colored
colored, noun: An item of clothing that has color, separated from whites for washing. Full entry
- Forms
- coloredcoloreds plural
- Spelling
- colored → coloreds: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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