tawney

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962)

"He's been telling me of Tawney's tutorial class at Rochdale. — One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex, Alfred Ollivant
One was an enormous Lion with clear, intelligent eyes, a tawney mane bushy and well kept, and a body like yellow plush. — Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
270 XXXI Much like, as when the beaten marinere, That long hath wandred in the Ocean wide, Oft soust in swelling Tethys saltish teare, And long time having tand his tawney hide With blustring breath of heaven, that none can bide, 275 And scorching flames of fierce Orions hound,° Soone as the port from farre he has espide, His chearefull whistle merrily doth sound, And Nereus crownes with cups°; his mates him pledg around. — Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, Edmund Spenser

Richard Henry Tawney

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