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tenné, tenny, a. and n. Her.|ˈtɛnɪ|
Also 7, 9– tenney, 9 teany.
[a. obs. F. tenné (16th c.), var. of tanné, tawny; cf. tennet, var. of tannet tawny cloth (14th c. in Godef.).]
‘Tawny’ as a heraldic colour: variously described as ‘orange-brown’ or ‘bright chestnut’; in engraving represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by others, according to some authors, vertically, according to others, horizontally.
1562Leigh Armorie 19 Now to the sixth coloure, whiche we calle Tawney, and is blazed by thys woorde, Tenne. It is a worshipfull colour, and is of some Herhaughtes called Bruske,..it is made of two bright colours which is Redde and Yellowe. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 39 The Fess Tenny, which iz a cooler betokening dout & suspition. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Tenny, or Tawney,..is expressed in Engraving by thwart Strokes or Hatches. 1882Cussans Heraldry 51 Tenné (bright chestnut). 1922Joyce Ulysses 47 On a field tenney a buck, trippant, proper unattired. |