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British White

British  

noun

  1. a British breed of medium-sized white cattle with black points, bred mainly for meat

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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 Soviet charge d'affaires ordered packing to start at once, but took care to issue a formal statement branding as "forgeries" all incriminating documents in the British White Book.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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