tawny

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"My hair is of a very fashionable shade--tawny, which indicates a passionate heart, with under-waves of gold, as if the sunshine had got entangled in it.

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  1. noun A light brown to brownish orange.

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  • His hair was short and as straight as mink fur but tawny, a mix of sun-streaked caramel and butterscotch. —  Greene, Jennifer - Rock Solid (html).html
  • The King was taller than the others by half a head; his beard was long and tawny, and his presence royal. —  The Cat in Grandfather's House
  • His skin was delicately tawny, and slightly lustrous. —  The Lost Girl
  • Their complexion was tawny, and they were destitute of beards; their hair not crisp, like that of negroes, but straight and coarse; their features were agreeable; their stature moderate and well shaped; their foreheads lofty, and their eyes remarkably fine As Columbus supposed that he had landed on an island at the extremity of India, he called the natives Indians, as the inhabitants of the New World have ever since been denominated. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
  • A body--tawny and hunched. —  Scottish Ghost Stories
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman taune, variant of Old French tane, from past participle of taner, to tan; see tan1.

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  1. Formerly also tawnie, tawney, tanny, and in heraldry tenney; from Middle English tawnye, tauny, tanni, from Old French tanné, tané, French tanné, dial. tané, past participle of tanner, taner, tan: see tan.
  2. from tawny, adjective
 

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