colored vs saffron

colored

adj
  • Having a color. 

  • Having prominent colors; colorful. 

  • Having a particular color or kind of color. 

  • Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way. 

  • Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense). 

  • Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.) 

noun
  • A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian). 

  • A colored article of clothing. 

saffron

adj
  • Having an orange-yellow colour. 

verb
  • To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc. 

  • To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye. 

  • To give a saffron colour to (something). 

  • To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron. 

  • To embellish. 

noun
  • An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt. 

  • A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent. 

  • The plant Crocus sativus, a crocus. 

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