fallow vs tawny

fallow

adj
  • Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun. 

  • Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season. 

  • Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time. 

  • Inactive; undeveloped. 

noun
  • Uncultivated land. 

  • The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season. 

  • Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year. 

verb
  • To make land fallow for agricultural purposes. 

tawny

adj
  • Of a light brown to brownish orange colour. 

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). 

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. 

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