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ˈwhity-ˈbrown, a. (n.)
[whity a. b.]
1. Of a brown colour inclining to white; whitish brown; pale brown: most commonly of paper. As n. (properly two words) a whitish brown; ellipt. = whity-brown paper.
1777Thicknesse Journ. France (1789) II. 104 The frequent marriages of these men..with white women, and the succession of black, brown, and whity brown people, produced by these very unnatural..alliances. 1786F. Burney Diary 2 Aug., She seized a piece of whity-brown paper. 1815Zeluca II. 83 Detestable Creature, with her whity-brown hair. 1816Colman Broad Grins, Mr. Champernoune vii, A paper coarse in grain; For England's monarchs then were fain To handle whitey-brown. 1862Thackeray Philip xix, Whitey-brown bread. 1876Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 17 A little green leather sheath, worn at the edges to whitey-brown.
2. fig. Neither one thing nor another, neutral, undecided, half-and-half.
1892Spectator 19 Mar. 391/1 Let us..have no whitey-brown men. 1895Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 8/2 The whitey-brown men, a political tribe of undecided colour,..who side with any party. |