English Dictionary

of color

形容詞

アメリカ英語 比較不可 歴史的

(chiefly US) Nonwhite; of a race other than white, for example black.

日本語の意味

非白人、白人以外の人種に属すること / 有色人、有色人種として表現されること

The committee prioritized hiring candidates of color to increase representation.

委員会は代表性を高めるため、非白人の候補者の採用を優先しました。

意味（1）

(chiefly US) Nonwhite; of a race other than white, for example black.

It is to him that we owe the story that Talleyrand outraged the susceptibilities of the Philadelphians by his open admiration for a woman of colour with whom he frequently appeared in public.

意味（2）

(historical) Belonging to a category of people with mixed black and white ancestry in the Americas in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

[page 1:] Chap. 1. … The inhabitants of the French part of St. Domingo, as of all the West Indian Islands, were composed of three great classes: 1st, Pure whites. 2d, People of colour, and blacks of free condition. 3d, Negroes in a state of slavery. The reader is apprised that the class which, by a strange abuse of language, is called people of colour, originates from an intermixture of the whites and the blacks. The genuine offspring of a pure white with a negro is called a mulatto; but there are various casts, …. All these were known in St. Domingo by the term sang-melées, or gens de couleur … [page 67:] Chap. VI. Consequences in St. Domingo of the Decree of the 15th of May—Rebellion of the Negroes in the Northern Province, and Enormities committed by them—Revolt of the Mulattoes at Mirebalais—Concordat or Truce between the Inhabitants of Port au Prince and the Men of Colour of the 13th of September—Proclamation by the National Assembly of the 20th of September.