tawny

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɔːni/

Adjective

tawny (comparative tawnier, superlative tawniest)

1. 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.

2. A sweet, fortified wine which is blended and matured in wood.

Synonyms

• fulvous

Related terms

• tan

Translations

• French: fauve
• Italian: ocra, fulvo
• Russian: рыжева́то-кори́чневый
• Spanish: pardo, beige, leonado

Noun

tawny

1. A light brown to brownish orange colour.

Translations

• French: fauve

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