"colour-proud" meaning in All languages combined

See colour-proud on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more colour-proud [comparative], most colour-proud [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} colour-proud (comparative more colour-proud, superlative most colour-proud)
  1. Favouring people of one's own skin colour over others; racist, racially prejudiced. Synonyms: colour proud, color-proud, color proud
    Sense id: en-colour-proud-en-adj-Qiqm3tIE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1924, Cherry Kearton, The Shifting Sands of Algeria, London: Arrowsmith:",
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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 132:",
          "text": "Lace had at the back of his mind a desire to go combo. He had had it ever since he came in contact with the comely lubras of the district. But at first it had been kept in check by what he called his Sense of Decency. Not that he was a prude. Apparently he was only colour-proud.",
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          "text": "2007, Lena Crabbe in Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia and Blaze Kwaymullina (eds), Speaking from the Heart: Stories of Life, Family and Country, North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, p. 36, https://books.google.ca/books?id=izfgb7WGC7oC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nHis parents were colour proud and they didn't want him knocking around with Nyungars […]"
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