(obsolete) Tawdry lace. / (obsolete) Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.

(of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy. / (of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, shameful.

Of a light brown to brownish orange colour.

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

A light brown to brownish orange colour. / (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”)

(Islam) the central Islamic doctrine of God's divine unity

(sumo) Any of the straw bales, packed with earth, placed in a circle on the dohyo and forming the area that the rikishi must stay inside.

(South Asia) A frying pan or griddle.

Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.

(obsolete) A silk ribbon or string worn as a necklace in the 16th and early 17th centuries.