"brown goods" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: From their colour. Consumer electronics equipment formerly had a brown wooden veneer. Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} brown goods pl (plural only)
  1. consumer electronics equipment for entertainment, such as televisions and music centres Tags: plural, plural-only Translations (consumer electronics): hemelektronik [common-gender] (Swedish), brunvaror [plural] (Swedish), nwyddau brown [masculine, plural] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-brown_goods-en-noun-4H~a2cVV Disambiguation of 'consumer electronics': 92 3 4
  2. unbleached cotton textiles Tags: plural, plural-only
    Sense id: en-brown_goods-en-noun-1PfN08ko
  3. (beverage industry) spirits which are brown in colour, such as whiskey Tags: plural, plural-only Coordinate_terms: red goods, white goods, yellow goods
    Sense id: en-brown_goods-en-noun-YlAjAbEr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 18 48 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 32 20 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 32 23 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 32 19 49

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          "ref": "1999, Miles, Ian, \"Home Informatics: New Consumer Technologies, in eds. William H. Dutton et al., Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age, page 107",
          "text": "Electronics capabilities led to the emergence of a distinction between \"white goods\" (the typically enamelled kitchen appliances such as fridges and cookers) and \"brown goods\" (such as wood- or bakelite-cased record players, radios, and TVs)."
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