DCHP-1 Online
bit of brown Slang, Obs. 
among the fur traders, an Indian woman kept by a white man in a country alliance.
See also: country alliance
- 1831 (1940) Robertson brought his bit of Brown with him to the Settlement this Spring in hopes that she would pick up a few English manners. . . .
- 1944 The rough traders and their daily lives, their relations with the Indian women, their "bits of brown," are all there.
- 1831 (1940) Robertson brought his bit of Brown with him to the Settlement this Spring in hopes that she would pick up a few English manners. . . .