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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, tey-] / 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

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

Swift as a flash there sprang over her shoulder a tawney, spotted leopard, which landed upon the back of a big leather armchair and turned upon the others with a fierce movement.

From American Fairy Tales by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In Summer they are of a tawney brown, but in Winter of a delicate white all over, except the tip of the tail, which is of a glossy black.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell

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

Made predominantly by generations of women working in abstraction, from the mid-20th-century artists Joan Mitchell and Lenore Tawney to the young contemporary painters Firelei Báez and Jadé Fadojutimi, the collection isn’t obviously about gender.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

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

“She wants a trim,” my mother said in a hushed voice, and Tawney received this confidence with a nod.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2019

Garrison Tawney grew up in Roane County and went to Marshall University, in Huntington.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2018

Look, there isn't going to be any bargaining with Tawney, he just doesn't work that way.

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

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

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