two-tone
Americanadjective
adjective
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of two colours or two shades of the same colour
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(esp of sirens, car horns, etc) producing or consisting of two notes
Etymology
Origin of two-tone
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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She wanted something small, like a Honda Civic, or something cute, like a Volkswagen Bug, but she did not want the beat-up, two-tone Ford pickup with a cracked windshield and a backfiring tail pipe that made it sound like the vehicle had eaten beans for every meal of its life.
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Shiny new two-tone Ford trucks.
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Maggie was in her uncle’s old blue two-tone F-150, and the truck could handle the rough dirt road, not that the bison were giving her much choice.
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Its first owner, Argentine President Juan Perón, fell in love with the two-tone hardtop car, with a lustrous cream color on the roof and rich mahogany on the bottom, at the Paris Salon.
But witnesses described seeing a thin, dark-haired man wearing a two-tone blue puffer jacket exiting the driver's seat and running from the scene.
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