Blankes Alleen, noun phrase

Forms:
Also with small initials.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, blankesWhite people + alleen only.
Attributive, ‘(for) White people only’, often used ironically; cf. Slegs vir Blankes. Also attributive. See also blanke.
Note:
In the past, this was the Afrikaans wording found on racially-restrictive signs.
[1957 D. Jacobson Price of Diamonds 46‘This is my place,’ Fink said, with another glance around the booking-office at the timetables and the railway maps on the walls, the sign that said: ‘Europeans Only/Blankes Alleen.’]
1988 Sunday Tribune 31 Jan. (Today) 7The news is not good. Huns and Visigoths have overrun our formerly fair and blankes alleen beaches.
[1989 J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 59The gritty pavement with the..green-painted oil drum rubbish bins and the Whites only/Alleen blankes signs.]
1991 A. Maimane in Weekly Mail 3 May 18Calvinists who believe that their blankes-alleen divinity gives them the right to oppress other races.
‘(for) White people only’, often used ironically;
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