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- adjective Archaic form of
colored . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
color .
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Examples
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April 9, 2009 9: 40 AM somehow i didnt think he's fav color'd be white ... an interesting fellow Marcin is ... i would love to be at one of these IAC (ish) meets someday, just for curiosity
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The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in
Archive 2007-02-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in
A Visit from Uncle Walt Bruce Schauble 2007
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So you will see, honour'd sir, how difficult it is for these children of Satan to withdraw themselves from that master they have once served; since at the sober age of fifty-three yeares my husband's weak heart yet yearns after profligate faires and foolish gardens lighted by color'd lampes.
Birds of Prey 1875
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The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon -
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Pyrotechny, letting off color'd fire-works at night,
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"Don't know, Missus, color'd folks han't got white folk's ways, no how; we wouldn't know how to 'have ourselves; we too ignunt."
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Even what we moderns have come to mean by spirituality (while including what the Hebraic utterers, and mainly perhaps all the Greek and other old typical poets, and also the later ones, meant) has so expanded and color'd and vivified the comprehension of the term, that it is quite a different one from the past.
Good-Bye my Fancy ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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* It will be difficult for the future -- judging by his books, personal dissympathies, &c., -- to account for the deep hold this author has taken on the present age, and the way he has color'd its method and thought.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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Even what we moderns have come to mean by spirituality (while including what the Hebraic utterers, and mainly perhaps all the Greek and other old typical poets, and also the later ones, meant) has so expanded and color'd and vivified the comprehension of the term, that it is quite a different one from the past.
Some Laggards Yet ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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