black-and-white television

noun

Etymology

Retronym for television, coined after the invention of colour television to refer specifically to the type of television existing before then.

Definitions

  1. A monochrome system of transmitting and receiving television signals.

  2. A television set that displays only monochrome images.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for black-and-white television. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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