Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
tawny .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962)
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Examples
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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!!
duh pookie 2009
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I will not live the scorn of each whiffling stranger from the South, because, forsooth, he wears tinkling spurs on a tawney boot.
The Monastery 2008
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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
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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. —
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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. —
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The natives are tawney [sic], robust, healthful, long lived, and go naked about the middle.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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CAROL, a long tawney coat, with a red cap, and a flute at his girdle, his torch-bearer carrying a song-book open.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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That usurers should have orange-tawney bonnets, because they do Judaize.
Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Calvin Elliott
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Amazons -- one of black and tawney tinsel, with baboons 'faces -- one of
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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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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