salt-and-pepperadj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: salt n.¹, and conj.¹, pepper n.

Etymology: < salt n.¹ + and conj.¹ + pepper n. Compare earlier pepper-and-salt adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsalt-and-ˈpepper.

Applied to things and materials (esp. hair) which are of two or more colours, one being light. Cf. pepper-and-salt n. and adj. Also (originally and chiefly U.S.) transferred, applied to places, schemes, etc., in which black and white persons are mixed.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > variegated with specific colours

hasweda1325

pied1382

black and white1395

blue and white1551

bauson1587

piebald1743

tortoiseshell1803

testudinarious1826

pepper-and-salta1843

tortoise1902

salt-and-pepper1915

pepper-and-salty1952

society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [adjective] > multiracial

multiracial1903

salt-and-pepper1959

multinational1964

1915 St. Evening Post 2 Jan. 8/3 Hattie Krakow ran her hand over her smooth salt-and-pepper hair.

1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Aug. 19/2 Houston is considering the ‘salt and pepper’ plan which has been widely suggested but not yet used. It calls for initial integration in schools where there is least objection from parents and expansion into other areas later.

1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 130/2 Salt and pepper hair, a head of hair in which the hairs are of at least two different colours, one of which is white.

1971 New Yorker 21 Aug. 3 (advt.) Braid-bound suit of salt and pepper tweed.

1972 New Yorker 23 Dec. 38/3 Detroit is a salt-and-pepper situation. A great mix of black and white.

1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 52 In common with every American over eight and under twenty-five, he looked like a middle-aged American sports-writer: freckled pinhead, cropped salt-and-pepper hair.

1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant vi. 79 Thick eyebrows, the coiled, matted hair an odd mixture of black and white. Salt-and-pepper eyebrows.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

单词	salt-and-pepper
释义	salt-and-pepperadj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: salt n.¹, and conj.¹, pepper n. Etymology: < salt n.¹ + and conj.¹ + pepper n. Compare earlier pepper-and-salt adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsalt-and-ˈpepper. Applied to things and materials (esp. hair) which are of two or more colours, one being light. Cf. pepper-and-salt n. and adj. Also (originally and chiefly U.S.) transferred, applied to places, schemes, etc., in which black and white persons are mixed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > variegated with specific colours hasweda1325 pied1382 black and white1395 blue and white1551 bauson1587 piebald1743 tortoiseshell1803 testudinarious1826 pepper-and-salta1843 tortoise1902 salt-and-pepper1915 pepper-and-salty1952 society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [adjective] > multiracial multiracial1903 salt-and-pepper1959 multinational1964 1915 St. Evening Post 2 Jan. 8/3 Hattie Krakow ran her hand over her smooth salt-and-pepper hair. 1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Aug. 19/2 Houston is considering the ‘salt and pepper’ plan which has been widely suggested but not yet used. It calls for initial integration in schools where there is least objection from parents and expansion into other areas later. 1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 130/2 Salt and pepper hair, a head of hair in which the hairs are of at least two different colours, one of which is white. 1971 New Yorker 21 Aug. 3 (advt.) Braid-bound suit of salt and pepper tweed. 1972 New Yorker 23 Dec. 38/3 Detroit is a salt-and-pepper situation. A great mix of black and white. 1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 52 In common with every American over eight and under twenty-five, he looked like a middle-aged American sports-writer: freckled pinhead, cropped salt-and-pepper hair. 1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant vi. 79 Thick eyebrows, the coiled, matted hair an odd mixture of black and white. Salt-and-pepper eyebrows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.1915
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