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English
Etymology
Apparently a pronunciation spelling based on the speech of Portuguese immigrants.
Proper noun
New Beige
- (informal) A nickname for New Bedford, Massachusetts.
- Coordinate term: Fall Reeve
1999 September 25, Everyones Little Skin Sister, “i ask, you answer”, in alt.skinheads.moderated (Usenet):New Bedford aka Lil Portugal.. aka New Beige... it's in Massachusetts.
2004 September 10, nantuckets finest, “From Pat Buchanan.......”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet):>Surely you can find decent chourico in Rhode Island, no?
Only the part of RI that is close to Fall River and New Beige....
2008 December 9, Jan Brogan, Teaser (Hallie Ahern Mysteries), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 145:According to a listing I found on the Web, the company actually has a warehouse and retail store in New Beige.
2011 July 1, Randall Peffer, Old School Bones, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:His father says the races have been mingling in New Bej since the whaling days.
2019, Maggie L.N. Felisberto, quoting Millicent Borges Accardi, “Kale Soup and the Portuguese-American Soul: The Work of Millicent Borges Accardi”, in Christopher Larkosh, editor, Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today (Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies; 32), Tagus Press (UMass Dartmouth), →ISBN, →OCLC:New Beige, a place where half/ of the hell of this city don’t even speak.