Here is a film critic using the term in a review of
The Importance of Being Earnest. It is not a racial, but rather a class reference.
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Meanwhile, Algy has his own alter ego named Bunbury, a country-dwelling invalid friend who helps him avoid social engagements with his uppity social butterfly aunt, Lady Bracknell (Judi Dench), as well as the local bill collectors. During a trip to London, Jack proposes marriage to Gwendolen, which is halted by Lady Bracknell’s refusal of the proposal based up Jack’s inability to produce proof of his lineage: He was found abandoned as a babe in a London train station cloak room. As predictably as a Three's Company episode, all parties end up converging in the countryside in pursuit of the truth.
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A film review by Max Messier - Copyright © 2002 Filmcritic.com