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OF COLOR


Crosswords: OF COLOR

Etymologies containing "OF COLOR": Achroous, AntaresBlacksmith, Bloodflower, Blushy, BRUIN, Bureau, BurnetChromatic, Colorate, Columbella, ConiteDebeige, DonkeyGulesInde, iodinelividmalachite, mauve, Melanochroic, monochrome, MustaibarhodiumYellow-covered. (references)

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Modern Usage: OF COLOR

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I must go back and tell him what I think of him. The world must be safe so that men of all nations and creeds, regardless of color or religion, will be free to sneeze on their superiors! (The Good Doctor; writing credit: Anton Chekhov; Neil Simon)

Rainbows are those little arches of color that show up after a rainstorm. (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi)

Movie/TV Titles

Women of Color 2 (1994)

A Question of Color (1992)

Women of Color (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: OF COLOR

DomainTitle

Books

  • Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts (reference)

  • Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia 1789-1879 (reference)

  • The Miracle of Color Healing: Aura-Soma Therapy As the Mirror of the Soul (reference)

  • Edgar Cayce on the Power of Color, Stones and Crystals (reference)

  • No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • "Makeup Techniques for Women of Color" Senior Instructor Bridgette Winton of The Makeup Institute demonstrates easy to follow techniques that will allow you to enhance the natural beauty of women of color. By watching and learning these techniques you wil (reference)

  • BabyScapes - Celebration of Color (reference)

  • Journey of Color Music & Fract (reference)

  • LightTones - A Journey of Color, Music and Fractal Imagery (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: OF COLOR

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The aristocracy of color.Credit: Library of Congress.

The blessings of liberty or how to "hook" a "gentleman of color".Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: OF COLOR

AuthorDateQuotation

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: OF COLOR

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Women, particularly women of color, recently increased dramatically as a risk group in the United States and constitute 50 percent of those infected worldwide. (references)

The advent of the CA 125 serum tumor marker and improvements in pelvic ultrasound, along with newer techniques of color Doppler imaging (CDI) studies of ovarian vessels, have led some to advocate the use of these modalities in the attempt to detect early-stage ovarian cancer. (references)

Business

Even a slight unevenness of color or other minor blemish can be a reason for products to be returned to the manufacturer by retailers. (references)

In terms of color preferences in building products, Turkey is generally a "warm" country and warm colors dominate consumer preferences. (references)

Discrimination

Angola

Under the Constitution, all citizens are equal before the law and enjoy the same rights and responsibilities regardless of color, race, ethnicity, sex, place of birth, religion, ideology, degree of education, or economic or social condition. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

Foreigners of color also reported harassment by police and at border control checkpoints. (references)

Slovak Republic

They claimed that skinhead violence decreased during the year, and that police better protected citizens of color from this violence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: OF COLOR

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

A racist nation doesn't make Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan icons in their fields, nor does it elevate Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Rod Paige and so many other people of color to positions of national leadership.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: OF COLOR

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809The captain, one American sea man, and two others of color remain prisoners with them unless exchanged under an agreement formerly made with the Bashaw, to whom, on the faith of that, some of his captive subjects had been restored.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969We should find a solution to fair housing, so that every American, regardless of color, has a decent home of his choice.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: OF COLOR

Expressions using "OF COLOR": additive mixture of color stimuli change of color changing of color display of color gaiety of color lack of color people of color person of color richness of color ring of color riot of color scheme of color sense of color. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: OF COLOR

Language Translations for "OF COLOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏كثرة في الألوان (riot of color, riot of colour), ‏ألوان زاهية (riot of color, riot of colour). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пищна картина (riot of color, riot of colour). (various references)

   

Danish

  

additiv farveblanding (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

additieve kleurvorming (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli), additieve kleurmenging (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yhdistävä värinsekoitus (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli), additiivinen värinsekoitus (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references)

   

French

  

théorie de la vision d'Edridge-Green (Edridge-Green theory of color vision), mélange additif de stimuli de couleur (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references)

   

German

  

Edridge-Green Theorie (Edridge-Green theory, Edridge-Green theory of color vision), additive Farbmischung (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προσθετικό μίγμα χρωματικών ερεθισμάτων (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שלל צבעים (riot of color). (various references)

   

Italian

  

miscela additiva di stimoli di colore (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

色覚 (sense of color), 色神 (sense of color), 色感 (sense of color), 色彩感覚 (sense of color), 変色 (change of color, discoloration, fading). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しきしん (sense of color), しきさいかんかく (sense of color), しきかん (commander, sense of color), しきかく (sense of color), へんしょく (change of color, discoloration, fading, unbalanced diet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ofay olorcay

   

Portuguese

  

mistura aditiva de estímulos de cor (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tonalitate (key, scheme of color, scheme of colour, tonality, tone), acromatism (achromatism, lack of color, lack of colour). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mezcla aditiva de estímulos de color (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli), brillante de colores (riot of color, riot of colour). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

färgskiftning (changing of color, changing of colour, hue, tinge, tint), färgsinne (sense of color, sense of colour), färgrikedom (richness of color, richness of colour), färgprakt (display of color, display of colour), färgglädje (gaiety of color, gaiety of colour), additiv färgstimulusblandning (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OF COLOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-l-o-o-o-r"

-2 letters: color, floor.

-3 letters: coof, cool, corf, floc, fool, loco, loof, rolf, roof.

-4 letters: col, coo, cor, for, fro, loo, orc, roc.

-5 letters: lo, of, or.

 Words containing the letters "c-f-l-o-o-o-r"
 

+3 letters: chloroform, floorcloth, footlocker.

 

+4 letters: chloroforms, floorcloths, fluoroscope, fluoroscopy, footlockers.

 

+5 letters: chloroformed, cuckooflower, fluorocarbon, fluorochrome, fluoroscoped, fluoroscopes, fluoroscopic, noncolorfast.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OF COLOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 46      43 4F 4C 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01000110 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#70 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#76 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0046      0043 004F 004C 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

494023749464952

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