Talk:medium-brow
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Moved to RFV without a note being left. DonnanZ (talk) 19:22, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
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I just added this, but then straight away I realised that the word I had in mind was middlebrow. I'm not sure "medium-brow" exists to any great extent, so it may be best to get rid of it. Mihia (talk) 20:58, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
- A quick glance a Google Books came up with only two uses in the sense of "middlebrow" that I could find--most other uses have to do with cosmetics and is just a consequence of "medium" and "brow" being side by side. It's also a common misreading of "medium brown" on Google Books. I'm personally in favour of expeditiously deleting it, but perhaps the best option is to move to RFV, if the editors with more experience than me agree. --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 21:39, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
- I found this one which fits in with the definition. DonnanZ (talk) 21:43, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
- One more from Google Books, and another source. DonnanZ (talk) 21:57, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
- Anyway, it looks like a definite keep to me. DonnanZ (talk) 09:06, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Moved from RFD. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 18:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
- I'm not quite sure why this was moved, since editors already found cites while it was in RFD, but I formatted up some cites at added them to the entry. This is cited Kiwima (talk) 21:12, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
- OK, seems I didn't make up the word after all! Thanks for finding the citations. Mihia (talk) 21:52, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:58, 2 April 2018 (UTC)