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Middle English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman tawné.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtau̯neː/, /ˈtau̯niː/
Noun
tawne (uncountable)
- tawny, brown-orange (colour)
- tawny-coloured fabric
- A tawny-coloured beverage
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Adjective
tawne
- tawny-coloured
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Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)
| whit
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grey, hor
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blak
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| red; cremesyn, gernet
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citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne
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yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
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| grasgrene
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grene
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| plunket; ewage
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asure, livid
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blewe, blo, pers
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| violet; inde
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rose, murrey; purpel, purpur
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claret
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