tawny
suomi-englanti sanakirjatawny englannista suomeksi
kellanruskea
tawny englanniksi
Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold.
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(RQ:Holinshed Chronicles) I in my defence ſhall colour and make red your tawny ground with the effuſion of chriſtian bloud: (..)
(RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1)
(RQ:Jonson Poetaster)
(RQ:Defoe New Voyage) a ſmall Box full of large Needles; then he gave her ſome courſe brovvn Thread, and ſhovv'd her hovv to thred the Needle and ſovv any Thing together vvith the Thread; all vvhich ſhe admired exceedingly, and call'd her Tavvny Maids of Honour about her, that they might learn alſo.
(RQ:Cowper Homer)
(RQ:Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit)|pages=150–151|pageref=151|passage=The head waiter inquired with respectful solicitude whether that port, being a light and tawny wine, was suited to his taste, or whether he would wish to try a fruity port with greater body.
(RQ:Eliot Adam Bede)
(RQ:Thoreau Cape Cod)
(RQ:Noyes Poems)
(RQ:Grahame Wind in the Willows)
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(quote-book) Somewhat tawnier and smaller than Common Nighthawk, but readily distinguished from it only by call.
To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
(RQ:Breton Mothers Blessing)
(RQ:Heywood Brazen Age)
(RQ:Quarles Divine Fancies)
To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) &91;Clowes (printer)|William Clowes&93; for Knight (publisher)|Charles Knight,(nb...)|year=1825|volume=II|page=249|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nT_QAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA249|oclc=230643369|passage=The countenance alone bespoke the years and the cares of John M‘Whirter. The deep wrinkled brow—the cheek plaited, and tawnied in the sun and the frosts of the north— (..)
(quote-book) at the (w)|year=1990|page=215|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9WLJ015CZ-0C&pg=PA215|isbn=978-0-935312-41-6|passage=In his drowse it all turned gleaming and mixing in him, his whole life, like the river gleaming taut between the trees. And everything that had ever happened to him tawnied over by the voluptuous light of the last fall, and his mouth watered for it all.
(color panel)
(RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World)
(RQ:Sandys Poetical Works)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) William Pearson, and sold by Nutt (printer)|John Nutt,(nb...)|year=1705|page=14|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SFhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA14|oclc=1325808205|passage=From the follovving Dye are Compoſed the beſt Tavvnies, Grey and Crimſon Goat Colours. (..) The Silk muſt be put in vvhen the Suds are cold, for the colder the Suds, the blevver the Violet Colour, vvhich muſt alvvays be blevver than the Tavvnies.
(quote-book)|title=The Art of Painting in Its Rudiment, Progress, and Perfection:(nb...)|location=Norwich, Norfolk|publisher=(...),(nb...)|year=1720|pages=48–49|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=vidkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA49|oclc=1204822237|passage=And thus by varying the Colours you ſhall produce all ſorts of mixtures: So black and vvhite variouſly mixed make a vaſt Company of deep and light Greys, Bleus and Yellovvs, many Greens; Red and Yellovv Orange Tavvnies, (..) the more the Red the deeper the Orange Tavvnies, and ſo forth; and thus muſt they in your VVork be ſhaded and heightened vvith Colours of their ovvn Affinity: (..)
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)
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(quote-book)|title=The Accedence of Armorie|location=London|publisher=(...) Henrie Ballard(nb...)|year=1597|section=folio 116, verso|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/accedenceofarmor00legh/page/n249/mode/1up|oclc=39805212|passage=The Herehaught herald muſt have a ſinguler reſpect to the face of him that ſhould haue the Armes, vvhere he ſhal vvel perceiue in vvhat ſeaſõ of the yere, his ovvn complexion vvill ſerue him to do beſt ſeruice in: (..) If in Somer, either a Hound or Salamandra, or ſome part of them, of the colour Bruske, vvhich is betvveene Geules and tavvney.
(RQ:Guillim Heraldrie)) is a ''Colour'' of vvorſhip, and of ſome ''Heralds'' it is called ''Bruske'', and is moſt commonly borne of ''French Gentlemen'', but very fevv doe beare it in ''England''. In ''Blazon'' it is knovvne by the name of ''Tenne''. It is (ſaith he) the ſureſt colour that is (of ſo bright a hevv being compounded) for it is made of tvvo ''bright Colours'', vvhich are ''Red'' and ''Yellovv'': (..)
(RQ:Porny Heraldry), vvhich is the tavvny or ''Orange colour'', is marked by diagonal lines dravvn from the Siniſter to the Dexter ſide of the Shield, traverſed by perpendicular lines from the Chief; (..)|footer=The 5th edition, page 22, states “from the dexter to the ſinister ſide”.
(RQ:Planche Pursuivant of Arms)
Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour ((non-gloss)).
(RQ:Parkinson Paradisi)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=& Hall|Chapman and Hall|year=1895|section=section I (The Owls)|page=67|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMw_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA67|oclc=4421312|passage=The Tawny Owl may easily be induced, under favourable conditions, to take up its quarters near the houses of men. The writer is familiar with a pair of Tawnies which have nested for many years in one of several covered-in boxes fitted up in the trees that overhang the shrubberies in the grounds. (..) There are other Tawnies in the woods and parks about, but this pair are the lords of their own district, for like all birds of prey they require a large area for their hunt for food.
(RQ:Halliwell Dictionary)
''In full'' tawny port: a sweet, fortified wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
(quote-book) We consider 10- and 20-year-old tawnies the best buys; the older ones aren't always worth the extra bucks.
A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Grafton|Rychard Grafton, printer to the Kinges Maiestie|year=1553|section=folio iiij, recto|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4g1lAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5|oclc=560525592|passage=No perſone, or perſones, occupiyng the ſeate of diẽg, ſhal die, or altre into colours, or cauſe to be died, or altred into colours, any wollen clothes, as broune blewes, pieukes, tawnies, or violettes, except the ſame wollẽ clothes be perfeictly boiled, greined or madered vpon the woade, & ſhot with good, and ſufficient corke, or orchal after a due, ſubſtancial, & ſufficient maner of workemanſhip, according to thauncient workmanſhip in time paſt vſed, vpõ peine for euery defalt to forfeite .xx. s̃.
(RQ:Hakluyt Principall Navigations)|date=8 August 1566|page=380|passage=You ſhall doe well to ſend ſuch ſorts clothes as be liuely to the ſight, and ſome blackes for womens garments, with ſome Orenge colours and tawneis.
(RQ:Mather Invisible World)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) F. Mills and W. Turner,(nb...)|year=1696|page=47|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=gb1lAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA47|oclc=1203225791|passage=''Senegal'' ſeparates the ''Azoaghes'', ''Moors'' or ''Tavvnies'', from the real ''Blacks''; ſo that on one ſide of the River are the ''Moors'' of a Tavvny Complexion, and the other is Inhabited by People that are perfectly Black.
(quote-book) François-Marie Arouet|chapter=History of the Old Woman|translator=anonymous|title=Candid: Or, All for the Best.(nb...)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...) Nourse|John Nourse(nb...)|year=1759|page=37|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=40cGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA37|oclc=1205530311|passage=Upon our arrival at Morocco, vve found the vvhole kingdom a ſcene of blood and confuſion. Fifty ſons of the emperor Muley-Iſhmael had each their adherents: this produced fifty civil vvars of blacks againſt blacks, of tavvnies againſt tavvnies, and of mulattoes againſt mulattoes.