tawny
IPA: tˈɔni
noun
- A light brown to brownish orange colour.
- (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”)
- Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
- (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
- (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
- (obsolete)
- A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
- (probably derogatory) A person with skin of a brown colour.
- Tawny frogmouth.
- Tawny owl.
verb
- (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.
adjective
- Of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
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Examples of "tawny" in Sentences
- Tawny is a yellowish brown color.
- A broad orange tawny dorsal stripe.
- Tan is a pale brownish, tawny color.
- The crown and ears are tawny in color.
- The legs had transverse tawny stripes.
- They then bow to Tawny as Kalibak dies.
- The mantle is tawny and may be spotted with black.
- Upperside tawny, in fresh specimens a rich reddish tawny.
- Tawny is the color is associated with that of an aging wine.
- Two cars, mottled with rust and spattered with mud, sat in front of the flat, tawny house.
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