tawny
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold.
Verb
- To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
- To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
Noun
- A light brown to brownish orange colour.
- A light brown to brownish orange colour: 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).
- Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name): The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
- In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
- A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
- A person with skin of a brown colour.
- Tawny frogmouth.
- Tawny owl.
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