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Brown George
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†a. A loaf of a coarse kind of brown bread (obs.).
b. A hard, coarse biscuit.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 86/1 The blackest and coarsest Bread..is..Brown Bread, or Brown-George. 1694Echard Plautus 195 This Monarch here must dine to Day with a Brown George, and only Salt & Vinegar Sawce. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. Prol. (D.) One musty crust of a brown George. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
†2. A kind of wig. Obs.
1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Jarvis's Wig (D.) [A wig] of the colour of over-baked ginger-bread, one of the description commonly known during the latter half of the last century by the name of a brown George. 1882Globe 24 July 2/1 The King [George III] wore a brown wig..known popularly a century ago as ‘brown George’.
3. A brown earthenware vessel. Cf. black Jack.
1861Hughes Tom Brown Oxf. xxiv. (D.) His brown George, or huge earthenware receptacle..in which his bed⁓maker had been washing up his tea-things. 1864E. Capern Devon Provinc., Brown-George, a chamber utensil made of red clay. 1847–78Halliwell, Brown-George, a large earthen pitcher. |