white label

noun

: one of the first group of phonograph records pressed from a recording usually for executive, artist, and reviewer opinion

Word History

Etymology

so called from its bearing a hand-written or typed white label in contrast to the printed label used on trade records

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

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