chocolate vs tawny

chocolate

adj
  • Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color. 

  • Made of or containing chocolate. 

  • Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin). 

verb
  • To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate. 

  • To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium. 

noun
  • A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans. 

  • A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water. 

  • A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate. 

  • A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown). 

  • A black person; (uncountable) blackness. 

tawny

adj
  • Of a light brown to brownish orange colour. 

verb
  • To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. 

  • To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. 

noun
  • Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”) 

  • In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks. 

  • Tawny owl. 

  • Tawny frogmouth. 

  • The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula). 

  • A light brown to brownish orange colour. 

  • Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name). 

How often have the words chocolate and tawny occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )