| 单词 | play-white |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplay-white play-white n. South African (in the apartheid era) a black or Coloured (coloured adj. 3d) person who can pass as a white person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > light-skinned white Negro1766 yellowskin1831 yellow1873 pink toe1930 light-skin1935 peola1938 play-white1952 redbone1983 lightie1991 1952 Drum (Johannesburg) Aug. 6 These ‘Colourpeans’, as they have been dubbed, can never hope to fool their own people. They are easily recognised for what they are, but most Coloureds are not malicious and allow these ‘Playwhites’ to have things their own way. 1956 A. Sampson Drum xv. 205 Harry was only one of thousands of ‘play-whites’, as they call the light-skinned Coloureds who ‘pass for white’ and break away from the Coloured world. 1988 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 3 July (Extra) 2/8 The play-whites of Cape Town nonchalantly sauntered through the turnstiles in style... That was apartheid's finest hour. < as lemmas |
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