Tawn vs Tarn - What's the difference?
tawn | tarn |
(rare) A tan.
* 1851 ,
(Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
* 1839, (1997),
As nouns the difference between tawn and tarn
is that tawn is a tan while tarn is a small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.As a verb tawn
is to tan, make tawny.As a proper noun Tarn is
one of the départements of Midi-Pyrénées, France (INSEE code 81.tawn
English
Noun
(en noun)- In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn , but slightly bleached withal; HE doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.
Anagrams
* ----tarn
English
Noun
(en noun)1,
- It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.