What is "tonnish"

Usage examples of "tonnish".

Jam-packed with males, broad shouldered, elegant tonnish gentlemen, the vast majority of whom he would know by name.

If she told true, she now viewed the time she spent in tonnish endeavours as a very poor investment.

For himself, he cared little for the dramatics enacted on the stage--and even less for the histrionics played out in the corridors, the little dramas of tonnish life.

There was a seat vacant beside Mrs Allerdyne, a tonnish widow who, Lucinda now realised, was probably not quite as virtuous as she appeared.

Feeling as if her eyes had just been opened to yet another aspect of tonnish life, Lucinda, somewhat dazedly, glanced about her again.

I seriously doubt I could stomach a never-ending round of tonnish life.

A boxer of some skill, he was one of the few not of the ton with a ready entrte to those tonnish precincts.

If she told true, she now viewed the time she spent in tonnish endeavors as a very poor investment.

Allerdyne, a tonnish widow who, Lucinda now realized, was probably not quite as virtuous as she appeared.

A boxer of some skill, he was one of the few not of the ton with a ready entree to those tonnish precincts.

Not only was the inn comfortable, but situated as it was just on the London side of the major posting town of Reading, it was generally overlooked by tonnish society.

That tonnish life and the constant whirl of society would no longer hold any allure for her.

Would she return to Avening and quiet country life, or had tonnish society and her family not just reclaimed but recaptured her?

Adding the lilac-bedecked hat she felt prodigious fashionable, ready to hold her own with the tonnish matrons they were about to meet.

The Scorriers are well enough: not tonnish, but of good stock: a Staffordshire family.