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colour-proud en · ADJ
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Favouring people of one's own skin colour over others; racist, racially prejudiced.
To the Frenchman, of course, black and white are both alike. He is not so colour-proud as we are. And an Algerian negro is a fully-fledged French citizen.
1924, Cherry Kearton, The Shifting Sands of Algeria, London: Arrowsmith: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.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 132:2007, 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
His parents were colour proud and they didn't want him knocking around with Nyungars […]
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