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• a variation of tawny.

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  tawney

  adjective

  tawny.
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  Tawney

  noun

  Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.

tawney

¹ American  

[taw-nee] / ˈtɔ ni /

adjective

tawnier, tawniest

1. tawny.

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Tawney ² American  

[taw-nee, tay-] / ˈtɔ ni, ˈteɪ- /

noun

1. Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.

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Tawney British  

/ ˈtɔːnɪ /

noun

1. R ( ichard ) H ( enry ). 1880–1962, British economic historian, born in India. His chief works are The Acquisitive Society (1920), Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926), and Equality (1931)

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tawney Tawney tawnier

Item—A coat of tawney damask, purfled with velvet, appertaining to our Lady.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 577, July 7, 1827 by Various

Carol, a long tawney coat, with a red cap, and a flute at his girdle, his torch-bearer carrying a song-book open.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend

Here, degraded and dishonoured, I will not live the scorn of each whiffling stranger from the South, because, forsooth, he wears tinkling spurs on a tawney boot.

From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott

Me, he describes as the "Professor of Charms" and "Charming Professor," once—the "tawney charmer."

From The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar. by William G. Allen

Six yards of tawney medley at 13s. 4d. a yard, with a fur of black budge rated at £10, is the warrant for 1592.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Beachcombing finds and glass game board pieces collected by the sculptor Lenore Tawney have been kept pretty much in her original collaged arrangements.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2020

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wis., has been exhibiting vignettes from her whitewashed Manhattan apartment, where Ms. Tawney, who died in 2007 at 100, hung her gossamer weavings all around.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2020

Clemens' talented, ambitious PR flak is a strong coffee jolt to the three other people out there who watched "Rectify" and remember her as gentle Tawney.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2020

Tawney and I looked at each other in the mirror, her scissors poised.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2019

Greg stopped, glaring at Tawney and gasping for breath.

From Gold in the Sky by Llewellyn

The sauce is a touch spicier and tawnier in color than King’s but basically the same.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2016

Soon after the tawnier russets, like Egremont and the excellent Laxton's Superb, are being harvested.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011

The stars have zero chemistry here, but they'd be ideal co-hosts for a 4 a.m. infomercial on tauter abs and tawnier tans.

From Time Magazine Archive

From E. u. fremonti, the subspecies from the mountains of western and northwestern Wyoming, E. u. montanus differs in: General tone of upper parts lighter; hairs around outermost edge of tail tawnier.

From Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus by John A. White

She rarely rode otherwise than bare-headed, and the high-rolled masses of her hair had grown tawnier and redder for that reason.

From The Law of the Land by Emerson Hough