/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Colour, Colours
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A man of colour. A negro, or, more strictly speaking, one with negro blood. (See Colours.)
“There are three great classes: (1) the pure whites; (2) the people of colour; (3) negroes and mulattoes.”—Edwards: St. Domingo, i.
· ·
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
· 
· 
· ·