British White
Britishnoun
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You wouldn't be wrong to think of Two Weeks in August as something of a British White Lotus, a comparison its writer Catherine Shepherd has addressed.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
The Royal Navy spokesman added the British White ensign, which is only used on UK warships, "cannot be defaced because it's a symbol of the legal status of a vessel as a warship".
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2019
She and her husband started their farm in 2002, raising a breed of cows called British White.
From Washington Times • Jun. 30, 2018
The British "White Paper" omits to indicate whether or not any secret British reply was made to this French implied proposal of an entente.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We can thus go through the whole British "White Paper" and discover the omission of many interesting documents.
From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various
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