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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being tawny.

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  • noun The quality or state of being tawny.

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  • noun The quality or state of being tawny.

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  • noun the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather

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Examples

  • mchrist on 11/6/2009: not 100% certain I had a bad bottle or not - was not corked, but something seemed off. did not get any of the pepper I typically see in CDPs. the wine did have a slight "tawniness" on the palate, with fruit that seemed mostly flat.

    CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes) 2010

  • But hills and mountains on that side showed bare and heated, though beautiful with the sunburnt tawniness of California.

    CHAPTER XVII 2010

  • Lange is, if anything, a big, beautiful woman — she radiates a feline, almost leonine tawniness and self-confidence, and has been admired by some crit-ics for her "lithe" presence.

    Victims on Broadway Mendelsohn, Daniel 2005

  • Beyond, hills lifted in tawniness darkened by trees and lightened by homes.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • With a final effort he lurched through it and saw ahead of him a rising slope of ground that went up and never seemed to stop, ground covered with the beautiful tawniness of sun-dried grass, broken by rocky ledges thrusting from the slope, dotted by clumps of bushes and here and there a tree.

    A Heritage of Stars Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1977

  • Copper-color has an excess of red, and sepia is too brown; the tarry tawniness of an old boatswain's hand is nearer the mark, but even that is less among man-of-war's men than in the merchant-service, and is least in the revenue marine; it varies, also, with the habits of the individual, and the nature of his employment for the time being.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • River is known are given to it by the Yellowstone -- its turbulence, its tawniness, its feline treachery, its giant caprices.

    The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927

  • But hills and mountains on that side showed bare and heated, though beautiful with the sunburnt tawniness of California.

    Chapter 17 1913

  • If the connexion of tawniness with the action of buying were to be determined from syntactical connexion -- in the same way as there is made out the connexion of the cow one year old with that action -- then the injunctory sentence would indeed enjoin two matters (and this would be objectionable).

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • But such is not the case; for the one word 'arunyâ' denotes a substance characterised by the quality of tawniness, and the co-ordination in which 'arunayâ' stands to 'ekahâyanyâ' makes us apprehend merely that the thing characterised by tawniness also is one year old, but does not make a special statement as to the connexion of that quality with the thing.

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

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