bit of brown

Slang, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among the fur traders, an Indian woman kept by a white man in a country alliance.

Quotations

1831

Robertson brought his bit of Brown with him to the Settlement this Spring in hopes that she would pick up a few English manners. . . .

1944

The rough traders and their daily lives, their relations with the Indian women, their "bits of brown," are all there.