Tawny

Quick meaning: Tawny is an adjective meaning Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold.

Meaning

Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
2. (intransitive) To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
3. A light brown to brownish orange colour.
4. Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
5. (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
6. A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
7. A person with skin of a brown colour.

Example Sentences

[T]he vvatch-dogs and aſſembled ſvvains / Have driv'n a tavvny lion from the ſtalls, […]

[P]erhaps they metamorphose themselves into a tawny squirrel that scampers away and mocks you from the topmost bough.

The VVooſell cock, ſo blacke of hevve, / VVith Orange tavvny bill, / The Throſtle, vvith his note ſo true, / The VVren, vvith little quill.

There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.

Word Forms

• tawnier
• tawniest
• tawney
• tawnies
• tawnying
• tawnied
• tawnys

Synonyms for tawny

Depending on context, synonyms include fulvid, fulvous, olivaster, subfuscous, swart, swartish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colored, chromatic, ochraceous, frogmouths, taupe, orangish.

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