Black and lab mouse - using coordinated adjectives and attributive nouns

Many nouns are used attributively. Is it correct to use them with actual adjectives by linking them with and?

Some other examples I can think of are:

Young and news reporter

Cold and orange juice

Tall and palm tree

Economic and language barrier

Solution 1:

Most of your examples are invalid. The last one is a fixer-upper:

Young news reporter.

Cold orange juice.

Tall palm tree.

Economic and linguistic barriers.

Solution 2:

You first need to realise that attributive nouns are better not regarded as true adjectives (though they can premodify the head noun quite similarly).

Then you should realise that not all pairs (etc) of adjectives can be coordinated using 'and'. There is a difference between cumulative adjectives and coordinate adjectives.

*The Chihuahua is a nice and little dog.

The African Elephant is a huge and frightening animal.

Finally, it is very unusual for an adjective and an attributive noun to coordinate. Perhaps 'I've come to read your electric and gas meters' might be considered an example, but the premodifiers are modifying different referents. From the internet, here is a complex example: 'Our vintage Sahana Wooden and Steel Frame Trunk Box'. But such cases are rare exceptions.

Solution 3:

No.

You can link two adjectives or two nouns but not a mixture.

Examples

He has a red and black T-shirt. (two adjectives)

She is an intelligent and hard-working woman. (two adjectives)

He is a culture and sports reporter. (two attributive nouns)

John is a train and plane spotter. (two attributive nouns)