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
Europe and the Near East, the twelve-man committee recommended, in effect, a new policy that would scrap the 1939 British White Paper.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The essential part of this justification is contained in the "Correspondence Concerning the European Crisis," placed before the British Parliament shortly after the start of the war, which is known as the British "White Paper."
From New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? by Various
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