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Tawney

//ˈtɔː.ni// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Norman.
Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of tawny. alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "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?"

Etymology

Habitational surname of Norman origin, from the villages of Saint-Aubin-du-Thenney and Saint-Jean-du-Thenney, both in Normandy.

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