| 单词 | bright-skinned |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbright-skinned c. Chiefly North American. Of a black or mixed-race person: having light-coloured skin. In later use also of the skin of such a person: light in colour or tone; chiefly in bright-skinned. ΚΠ 1768 Virginia Gaz. 22 Sept. Run away from the subscriber,..a bright Mulatto wench called Lucy,..may pass for a free wench. 1847 I. Jefferson in R. W. Logan Memoirs Monticello Slave (1951) ii. 13 Sally Hemings' mother was a bright mulatto woman & Sally mighty near white. 1938 Social Forces 16 568/1 The advantages which the ‘bright-skinned’ person has over his darker brother within the Negro group are probably ubiquitous in the American culture pattern. 2008 R. Dove in New Yorker 24 Nov. 91/1 Then this bright-skinned papa's boy could have sailed his fifteen-minute fame straight into the records books. < as lemmas |
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