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two-tone

or two-toned

[ too-tohn ]

adjective

  1. having two colors or two shades of the same color:

    a two-tone automobile.



two-tone

adjective

  1. of two colours or two shades of the same colour
  2. (esp of sirens, car horns, etc) producing or consisting of two notes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of two-tone1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

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I missed punk because I was too young, but two-tone ska, I got into that big time.

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She’s wearing an oversize salmon-colored dress shirt and extra-baggy jeans; Finneas, in a two-tone polo, has his feet propped on a coffee table.

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You might gasp when you see the Dodgers’ new City Connect uniform, decorated in dots of many colors, lines flying upward all over the place, no script across the front of the jersey, a player’s name below two-tone numbers on the back.

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Thames Valley Police's roads policing team, based at Bicester police station, were left "a little bit confused" by the two-tone impression.

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For the office, ties were back, worn over two-tone shirts with white colors.

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