Definitions

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  • adjective of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather

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Examples

  • It was green, green, green -- the blue-green of the springing year, and sere and yellow green and tawny-brown green of autumn.

    CHAPTER XXVIII 2010

  • A young lad with tawny-brown hair, long-limbed and tall for his years, rallied them, urged them to hold fast.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • A young lad with tawny-brown hair, long-limbed and tall for his years, rallied them, urged them to hold fast.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • A young lad with tawny-brown hair, long-limbed and tall for his years, rallied them, urged them to hold fast.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • He had just time to notice that the arm round his neck was naked and of a tawny-brown colour, before his eyes were bandaged, his mouth was gagged, and he was thrown helpless on the floor by (as he judged) two men.

    The Moonstone 2003

  • A thin blouse and exiguous shorts showed most of her tawny-brown skin to the sun.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • The Paonese are a homogeneous people, of medium stature, fair-skinned with hair-color ranging from tawny-brown to brown-black, with no great variations of feature or physique.

    The Languages of Pao Vance, Jack, 1916- 1958

  • The museum was an anniversary site Nawin and his wife had in fact gone to on a number of occasions to commemorate their youthful meetings there, and to see the freakish human pottery of tawny-brown or tanned ochre that had been of such comfort to them as teenagers.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • The bustard is of a pale grey on the neck and white beneath, but the back is beautifully barred with russet and black, while in the male a band of deep tawny-brown -- in some examples approaching a claret-colour -- descends from either shoulder and forms a broad gorget on the breast.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • It was green, green, green -- the blue-green of the springing year, and sere and yellow green and tawny-brown green of autumn.

    Chapter 28 1914

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