Tawny
['tɔːnɪ] or ['tɔni]
Definition
(adj.) of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather .
Typist: Norton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
Typed by Evangeline
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fulvous, fulvid, yellowish-brown, dull yellow.
Checked by Godiva
Definition
adj. of the colour of things tanned a yellowish brown.—n. Taw′niness.
Typist: Weldon
Examples
- At last he saw it, not twenty feet away--the long, lithe, muscular body and tawny head of a huge black-maned lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He looked back and saw her standing there, the first morning sunlight on her brown face and the cropped, tawny, burned-gold hair. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She wore what seemed to me to be a nurse's uniform, was blonde and had a tawny skin and gray eyes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She could not hear what Pilar was saying, but as she smiled at Robert Jordan she blushed dark under the tawny skin and then smiled at him again. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- From a diverging tunnel a sinuous, tawny form crept stealthily toward us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Sir Thomas was celebrated as a hanging judge, and the particular tawny port was produced when he dined with Mr. Osborne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Steven