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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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.
From BBC
She described clothes worn by the suspect at the time as "a two-tone grey jacket, dark on the body and light on the arms, black cargo trousers and flip-flops".
From BBC
I missed punk because I was too young, but two-tone ska, I got into that big time.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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