: colored in two colors or in two shades of one color
two-tone shoes

Examples of two-tone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This diversity of styles is reflected in the festival’s three headliner’s: L.A.’s pop punk progenitors (and poor spellers) the Descendents, the utterly unclassifiable Devo, and London’s two-tone terrors Madness. Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024 Ariana Flowers, 28, for instance, has bright purple hair, while her wife Brianna Flowers, 28, rocks a two-tone mane of blond and pink. Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2024 The gray and black bezel is borrowed from the solid gold and two-tone versions of the GMT Master II. Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 16 May 2024 Starring Michelle Dockery, Nicholas Pinnock and David Dawson, the story of a family and four young people drawn into Coventry and Birmingham’s exploding ska and two-tone music scene in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. John Hopewell, Variety, 14 May 2024 Fuji sells it in an all-black or a two-tone, silver-and-black finish. PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024 The two-tone 1630 is around, but most collectors are looking for the full-steel 1530 because integrated bracelet watches as a genre seem to call for steel above all else. Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2024 The new model’s boxy exterior and available two-tone paint consciously recall the 1958 Land Cruiser that was one of Toyota’s first successes in the American market, while its price and features establish it as one of the brand’s modern flagships. Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2024 Available in steel or an elegant two-tone combination of steel and rose gold—with or without diamonds—the Cut is equipped with an in-house H1912 self-winding mechanical movement visible through the sapphire crystal caseback. Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of two-tone was in 1906

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“Two-tone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/two-tone. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.

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