tawny
tawny
Definition
tawny (tô′nē)
adjective tawnier -·nier, tawniest -·ni·est
brownish-yellow; tan
Etymology: ME tauny < OFr tanné, pp. of tanner, to tan
noun
tawny color
tawny
Synonyms
tawny
modif.
tawny
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- old: No, you may not have a glass of my 20 year old tawny.
Modifies a noun
- adolphia: At about per tawny quot adolphia myself than i i can get.
- owl: Tawny Owls have large eyes, which help them see small animals in the darkness.
- pipit: Tawny pipit: after the first birds at Paphos on 27th, this bird seemed to be a common, but unobtrusive, migrant.
- quot: If you incur some of the a foreign investor and tawny quot.
- port: Finally, to round things off with a bit of a flourish, how about a tawny port.
- color: The plain is a general sunburned tawny color, the rock of the mountains is painted by distance to a lovely color like lavender.
tawny Quotes
Tawny are the leaves turned but they still hold, And it is harvest; what shall this land produce? A meagre hill of kernels, a runnel of juice; Declension looks from our land, it is old. Therefore let us assemble, dry, gray, spare, And mild as yellow air.
Browse dictionary entries near tawny
- tawniness
- tawniest
- tawnier
- Tawney
- tawdry
- tawdriness
- tawdriest
- tawdrier
- taw
- taverner
- taws
- tawse
- tax
- tax abatement
- tax anticipation note
- tax audit
- tax avoidance
- tax base
- tax benefit doctrine
- tax court
