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tarbrush (n.)
[tarbrush 词源字典]
1711, from
tar
(n.1) +
brush
(n.1). To have
a touch of the tarbrush
"have a dash of African ancestry visible in the skin tone" (1796) was "a term of contempt from the West Indies" [Century Dictionary].
[tarbrush etymology, tarbrush origin, 英语词源]