brownout
b row nowt
- n darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
- So here is Fantasia 2000--seven new sequences and an old favorite, The Sorcerer's Apprentice--arriving in the age of the middle-brownout.
- But 44 years later, as Cuban-Americans continue to clutch yellowing deeds and titles, the likelihood of ever recovering the actual properties has dimmed like a Havana brownout.
- Once it becomes clear that this is no temporary brownout, the public begins to panic.