Tawny Definition

tônē
tawnier, tawniest
noun
Tawny color.
Webster's New World
A light brown to brownish orange.
American Heritage
adjective
tawniest, tawnier
Brownish-yellow; tan.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Tawny

Adjective

Base Form:
tawny
Comparative:
tawnier
Superlative:
tawniest

Origin of Tawny

  • From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman tauné, from Old French tané, past participle of taner (“to tan"), from tan (“tanbark, tawny color"), from Gaulish tanno 'holm oak' (compare Breton tann, Old Irish caerthann 'rowan'), from Indo-European *dhenh-; akin to German Tann 'woods', Tanne 'fir', Hittite tanau 'fir', Avestan thanwarÉ™ (g. thanwanō) 'bow', Sanskrit dhánus (g. dhánvanus) 'bow', Latin femur (g. feminis) 'thigh', possibly Greek thámnos 'thicket'.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Anglo-Norman taune variant of Old French tane from past participle of taner to tan tan1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tawny Sentence Examples

  • It is black, with tawny rings round the eyes, and white cheeks, throat and chest.

  • The bake lights came on briefly as he slowed down for the bridge and then the truck disappeared into a cloud of tawny dust.

  • His complexion is tawny, darker than that of the Chinese, but clearer than that of the Cambodian; his hair is black, coarse and long; his skin is thick; his forehead low; his skull slightly depressed at the top, but well developed at the sides.

  • None of the sierras or mountains in Uruguay exceeds (or perhaps even attains) a height of 2000 ft.; but, contrasting in their tawny colour with the grassy undulating plains, they loom high and are often picturesque.

  • The stock pond stared up at her coldly from the tawny pasture like a huge eye, the ice-covered edges surrounding a deep blue iris.

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