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.

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  • adjective having the color of a fawn

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle 2011

  • Skirt and trousers were of fawn-colored silk corduroy.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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