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▸ verb: (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
▸ noun: A light brown to brownish orange colour.
▸ noun: (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”)
▸ noun: Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
▸ noun: (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
▸ noun: (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
▸ noun: (obsolete)
▸ noun: A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
▸ noun: (probably derogatory) A person with skin of a brown colour.
▸ noun: Tawny frogmouth.
▸ noun: Tawny owl.
Similar:
colored,
chromatic,
taupe,
orangish,
auburn,
burnt orange,
Orangey,
swarthy,
tannish,
testaceous,
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