: colored in two colors or in two shades of one color
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The custom interior includes two-tone leather seats, leather trim throughout and an IP accessory rail. New Atlas, 16 May 2025 These puzzles required the participants to fill in the blanks on a series of two-tone images with minimal detail. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2025 Rather than the elevated material approach sometimes used on Air Jordan 11 women’s styles, this new colorway keeps things classic with a two-tone ballistic mesh and patent leather upper. Riley Jones, Footwear News, 14 May 2025 Also, white sharks have two-tone coloration, and basking sharks have uniform coloration. Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for two-tone

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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 24 May. 2025.

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