brown goods

== English == === Etymology === From their colour. Consumer electronics equipment formerly had a brown wooden veneer. === Noun === brown goods pl (plural only) consumer electronics equipment for entertainment, such as televisions and music centres 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 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). unbleached cotton textiles (beverage industry) spirits which are brown in colour, such as whiskey ==== Coordinate terms ==== red goods white goods yellow goods ==== Translations ====