In a message dated 1/18/2008 1:58:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

3. In a  book I have about the Throckmortons (but I'm
at the office, not at home, of  course), a gentleman's
letter to his factor requests a certain amount  of
tawney fabric for a shirt. Whether we are to take
"tawney" as a color  or as a type of fabric, I don't
know. 



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Tawny being usually a light color, and in the orange/sandy/cream range [and  
the orange part seems to be a later definition] he could just mean an 
off-white  shirt rather than white-white, or perhaps an unbleached raw  linen.



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