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English
Etymology
From brown + skin.
Noun
brownskin (plural brownskins)
- A person with brown-colored skin.
- Coordinate term: redskin
- quoted in 2023, Samuel G. Freedman, Into the Bright Sunshine (page 283)
- Nell Dodson Russell, writing in the Spokesman, cast doubt on whether private employers would even follow the new ordinance: " This business of spouting brotherhood all over the banquet circuit provides a good smokescreen but the real proof of the pudding is the number of brownskins on the payroll."
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