tawney
adjective
tawney
1 American
[taw-nee]
/ ˈtɔ ni /
adjective
tawnier,
tawniest
Tawney
2
American
[taw-nee, tey-]
/ ˈtɔ ni, ˈteɪ- /
noun
Tawney
British
/ ˈtɔːnɪ /
noun
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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 Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Allen, William G.
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 Tyrrell, J. B.
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 Stebbing, W. (William)
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
Tawney and I looked at each other in the mirror, her scissors poised.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2019
Despite the flurry of settlements it triggered, the Tawney case didn’t end the practice of companies taking post-production deductions from royalty checks.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2018
Tawney ignored them, staring at the image of the red planet on the viewscreen almost eagerly.
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 Hough, Emerson
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 White, John A.
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