"a coloured lass"?
When you say "fairly recently" do you mean "the 1970s"?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 21 Feb 2013, 22:30, 2 replies)

See also "a bit dusky".

( 4Q just lurking, Thu 21 Feb 2013, 22:48, closed)

Fair play to him
He's standing up for someone's right to knock up a coloured lass and have a dusky child. The prick.
(woocfot friends with Sacha Distel, Thu 21 Feb 2013, 22:59, closed)

"Knock up" - a term so offensive that they made a feel-good family film called "Knocked Up". Not pejorative.

"Coloured" - "Person of Color" is recognised as a worthy term. "Coloured" is less of a mouthful. I would contend that they equate to the same thing (and so, presumably, would NAACP). Arguably pejorative if you squint a bit and look at it funny, but certainly not intended as such.

"Lass" - in common usage. No worse than "lad", which I mentioned a little later in the same line. Not pejorative.

"Dusky" - would have been in air quotes if I did such things. In any case, just google it - you seem to be the only person who cares. Not pejorative.

Prick.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 22 Feb 2013, 22:48, closed)

No, within the last year. If you're moaning about my use of the word 'coloured' - well, I genuinely mean no offence by it whatsoever, and employ it purely because I've never met the girl in question and thus know neither her exact shade, nor what its correct name might be on the Dulux colour wheel. However, the fact of it being "not white" was reasonably important to the story.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 21 Feb 2013, 22:49, closed)

Dulux do "Dusky Wog" in matt emulsion
You should do your research in future.
(woocfot friends with Sacha Distel, Thu 21 Feb 2013, 22:53, closed)

Dulux? You fucking povo.
It's all about Farrow and Ball's "Whiff of Arab" and "not so much black as mucky looking".
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 24 Feb 2013, 19:28, closed)

So you never bothered to ask what colour she was cos they're all the same to you?

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 21 Feb 2013, 22:55, closed)

He's a blind
You insensitive bastard
(Ronnie Spleen MMMMNEURRGH I AM A GAY SPAZ AND I LOVE IT UP MY BU, Thu 21 Feb 2013, 23:50, closed)