tawney
IPA: tˈɔni
Root Word: Tawney
noun
- A surname from Norman.
- Obsolete form of tawny. [A light brown to brownish orange colour.]
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Examples of "tawney" in Sentences
- That usurers should have orange-tawney bonnets, because they do Judaize.
- Amazons -- one of black and tawney tinsel, with baboons 'faces -- one of
- The natives are tawney [sic], robust, healthful, long lived, and go naked about the middle.
- CAROL, a long tawney coat, with a red cap, and a flute at his girdle, his torch-bearer carrying a song-book open.
- I will not live the scorn of each whiffling stranger from the South, because, forsooth, he wears tinkling spurs on a tawney boot.
- If you live anywhere west of the Grand Canyon, do not concern yourself with that crazy overcoddled plumpenheimer who goes by the name of Punksa-tawney Phil!!
- Date: May 20, 2007 7: 30 PM when the stars go blue one chance rolling star jennifer nettles patrick star lucy thai taylor stevens marilyn lange fred hammond julie tawney
- What a procession! her red damask, — her orange tawney, — her white and yellow lutestrings, — her brown taffata, — her bone-laced caps, her bed-gowns, and comfortable under-petticoats. —
- What a procession! her red damask, — her orange tawney, — her white and yellow lutestrings, — her brown taffata, — her bone - laced caps, her bed-gowns, and comfortable under-petticoats. —
- A hatband and rose made of diamonds in a gentleman's hat is common, and a hatband of pearls is ordinary in a tradesman; nay, a blackamore, or tawney young maid and slave, will make hard shift but she will be in fashion with her neck-chain and Bracelets of pearls, and her ear-bobs of considerable jewels.
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