Colored and Gay

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Colored adjective - Marked by a variety of usually vivid colors.

Usage example: the highly colored glassware that is the studio's hallmark

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Gay and colored are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gay" instead an adjective "Colored".

Nearby Words: color, colour, colorful, coloured, coloring

Gay adjective - Having much high-spirited energy and movement.

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Colored and gay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Colored" instead an adjective "Gay".

In Heart of Darkness, Marlow notes that the Russian's rainbow-colored clothing made him look "extremely gay."

Source: Have A Gay Old Time / Literature
It was also invoked gay symbolism — "freedom rings" are rainbow-colored rings on a chain, a well-known gay signifier of the '90s.

Source: Atrocious Alias
Fish out of Water: A group of openly gay young men and women in an obnoxiously colored minibus arrive in a staid Welsh mining town.

Source: Film / Pride 2014

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