tawny
tawny is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's tawny and spotted hide." Longfellow.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- auburn
- aureate
- bay
- berry
- bister
- bronze
- brown
- brunette
- chestnut
- chocolate
- cinnamon
- citrine
- colored
- creamy
- crocus
- dapple
- embrown
- fallow
- fawn-colored
- flavous
- fog
- foot
- foxy
- fulvid
- fulvous
- fuscous
- gamboge
- golden
- guinea
- icterus
- jaundice
- jaundiced
- khaki
- leaves
- lemon
- liver-colored
- luteous
- mahogany
- maroon
- nut-brown
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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