brown goods

Etymology
From their colour. Consumer electronics equipment formerly had a brown wooden veneer.

Noun

 * 1) consumer electronics equipment for entertainment, such as televisions and music centres
 * 2) * 1999, Miles, Ian, "Home Informatics: New Consumer Technologies, in eds. William H. Dutton et al., Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age, page 107
 * Electronics capabilities led to the emergence of a distinction between "white goods" (the typically enamelled kitchen appliances such as fridges and cookers) and "brown goods" (such as wood- or bakelite-cased record players, radios, and TVs).
 * 1) unbleached cotton textiles
 * 2)  spirits which are brown in colour, such as whiskey

Translations

 * Swedish:, brunvaror
 * Welsh: nwyddau brown