tawney

See also: Tawney

English

Noun

tawney (countable and uncountable, plural tawneys)

1. 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?