tawney
See also: Tawney
English
Noun
tawney (countable and uncountable, plural tawneys)
- Obsolete form of tawny.
- 1751, Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.[1]:
- Why increase the sons of Africa, by planting them in America, where we have so fair an opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red?