Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a light yellowish-brown color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the color of a fawn
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Examples
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Again Graham visioned the white round of knee pressed into the round muscles of the swimming Mountain Lad, as he noted the firm knee-grip on her pigskin English saddle, quite new and fawn-colored to match costume and horse.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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The sight of her, in her fawn-colored silk corduroy, tormented him with a rush of visions of that form of hers — swimming
CHAPTER XXI 2010
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Less than three miles up the coast I canter across a fawn-colored meadow, flushing hawks to flight.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II) Richard Bangs 2011
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It took him only moments to strip off his torn, dirty clothing and put on new fawn-colored breeches that hugged his thighs, a white shirt with a cravat that tied about his neck, and a long vest of dark green.
Judge deveraux The Scent of Jasmine 2011
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She looked suddenly small and bewildered among the detritus of her new life, the fawn-colored jewel case on the dressing table, the silk robe thrown across the bed, and Ifemelu felt frightened for her.
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Skirt and trousers were of fawn-colored silk corduroy.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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Today however he thought about the piece of deer and the little mushroom caps of bone that seemed to sprout from the branch of fawn-colored hair.
Deer Collage Carol Reid 2011
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John F. Kennedy and others; two fawn-colored cotton-rayon sofas; two elegant midnight-blue lamps by Christopher Spitzmiller; and an extremely contemporary mica coffee table from Roman Thomas, a New York furnituremaker.
Penelope Green On Oval Office Redesign: 'The Audacity Of Taupe' 2010
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John F. Kennedy and others; two fawn-colored cotton-rayon sofas; two elegant midnight-blue lamps by Christopher Spitzmiller; and an extremely contemporary mica coffee table from Roman Thomas, a New York furnituremaker.
Penelope Green On Oval Office Redesign: 'The Audacity Of Taupe' 2010
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John F. Kennedy and others; two fawn-colored cotton-rayon sofas; two elegant midnight-blue lamps by Christopher Spitzmiller; and an extremely contemporary mica coffee table from Roman Thomas, a New York furnituremaker.
Penelope Green On Oval Office Redesign: 'The Audacity Of Taupe' 2010
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