1. † a. A loaf of a coarse kind of brown bread (obs.). b. A hard, coarse biscuit.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 86/1. The blackest and coarsest Bread … is … Brown Bread, or Brown-George.
1694. Echard, Plautus, 195. This Monarch here must dine to Day with a Brown George, and only Salt & Vinegar Sawce.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. Auth. Prol. (1737), p. lxxxix. (D.). One musty Crust of a brown George.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.
† 2. A kind of wig. Obs.
1840. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Jarvis’s Wig (D.). [A wig] of the colour of over-baked ginger-bread, one of the description commonly known during the latter half of the last century by the name of a brown George.
1882. Globe, 24 July, 2/1. The King [George III.] wore a brown wig of smaller dimensions, known popularly a century ago as ‘brown George.’
3. A brown earthenware vessel. Cf. BLACK JACK.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., II. i. 13 (D.). His brown George, or huge earthenware receptacle, half full of dirty water, in which his bed-maker had been washing up his tea-things.
1864. E. Capern, Devon Provinc., Brown-George, a chamber utensil made of red clay.
1847–78. Halliwell, Brown-George, a large earthen pitcher.
