browning

browning
 n.β€” Β«Over the years of visiting Jamaica, I constantly heard the men referring to their favourite choice of girls as the β€˜browning’ type. I have always wondered who originally came up with this term? During the early 1970s, while I was in school, that term did not exist in the vocabulary of Jamaicans.Β» β€”β€œNote-worthy” Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) July 7, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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