tawny
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɔːni/
tawny (comparative tawnier, superlative tawniest)
- Of a light brown to brownish orange color.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14:
- There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon;
- And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon,
- When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,
- A red-coat troop came marching—
- Marching—marching—
- King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
- They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14:
- A sweet, fortified wine which is blended and matured in wood.
tawny
- A light brown to brownish orange colour.
- French: fauve
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