tawny-coats

tawny-coats
   A Shakespearean vocative which identifies those referred to by the colour of the coats they are wearing. It is Gloucester, in Henry the Sixth Part One (l:iv) who cries ‘Out, tawny-coats!’ to the retainers of Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester. His own men, wearing blue coats, force the others to leave.
   For a similar ad hoc vocative see also Chap with the red whiskers, thou. Shakespeare has other vocatives which include ‘tawny’. Lysander, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3:ii) tells Hermione: ‘Out, tawny Tartar, out! Out, loathed medicine! O hated potion, hence!’ Titus Andronicus (5:i) has ‘tawny slave’ addressed to a child, that of Aaron the Moor and the empress Tamora.

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