| 单词 | nigger-grey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnigger-grey C3. Forming nouns and adjectives denoting or designating a dark shade of a specified colour, as nigger-brown, nigger-grey, nigger-pink, etc. Cf. sense A. 11. Now rare (offensive). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > dark brown burneta1450 chocolate colour1729 chocolate-brown1766 chocolate1785 mocha1895 mocha brown1895 nigger1914 nigger-brown1915 tête de nègre1916 cocoa1923 charcoal brown1959 peat1971 1915 Home Chat 2 Jan. 11/1 Nigger-brown cloth. 1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 116 She was wearing a wide hat of grey straw, and a loose, swinging dress of nigger-grey velvet. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 124 On each table there were niggerpink and vermilion paper flowers. 1960 V. Williams Walk Egypt 89 A dry-goods store showed a dress of ‘nigger-pink’. 1983 Listener 21 July 4/1 ‘It's a common phrase that is used throughout the land,’ he said. ‘And what about the colour nigger brown?’ 2006 K. Atkinson One Good Turn (2007) viii. 69 Graham was dressed in an up-to-the-minute suit in a colour that, when Gloria was a child, everyone had blithely referred to as ‘nigger-brown’. < as lemmas |
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