Cape Colored

noun

1. a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cape Colored¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Could this really be the woman who, as a young social worker, had accepted a Cape Colored client’s invitation to climb into her bed to warm up her feet?

From Slate

Could this really be the woman who, as a young social worker, had accepted a Cape Colored client’s invitation to climb into her bed to warm up her feet?

From Slate

Could this really be the woman who, as a young social worker, had accepted a Cape Colored client’s invitation to climb into her bed to warm up her feet?

From Slate

And it is Cape Colored cuisine, inherited through his family, that has always inspired him.

From Time

In the noisome slums that disfigure the outskirts of Cape Town, 200,000 Cape Colored live in fear of the Skolly Boys, a gang of Negro gangsters whose favorite murder weapon is a bicycle chain.

From Time Magazine Archive