tawny
adjective
of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color.
Example Sentences
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The sauce is a touch spicier and tawnier in color than King’s but basically the same.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2016
Soon after the tawnier russets, like Egremont and the excellent Laxton's Superb, are being harvested.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
The stars have zero chemistry here, but they'd be ideal co-hosts for a 4 a.m. infomercial on tauter abs and tawnier tans.
From Time Magazine Archive
From E. u. fremonti, the subspecies from the mountains of western and northwestern Wyoming, E. u. montanus differs in: General tone of upper parts lighter; hairs around outermost edge of tail tawnier.
From Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus by John A. White
She rarely rode otherwise than bare-headed, and the high-rolled masses of her hair had grown tawnier and redder for that reason.
From The Law of the Land by Emerson Hough
