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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

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

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

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

Sir Philip Calthorpe, a Norfolk knight, sent as much cloth of fine French tawney, as would make him a gown, to a tailor in Norwich.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 326, August 9, 1828 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

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

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

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

He'd either have made a deal with Tawney or let him hijack the lode, if that was all there was to it.

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

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