tawny
adjective
of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color.
tawniness
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a word derived from
tawny.
Example Sentences
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The tawniness is indistinct, it haunts the sunshine, and is not to be fixed, any more than you can say where it begins and ends in the complexion of a brunette.
From Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies
Goldie was the tomcat, so termed by reason of his splendid tawniness.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
But hills and mountains on that side showed bare and heated, though beautiful with the sunburnt tawniness of California.
From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
All of the unique characteristics by which the Missouri River is known are given to it by the Yellowstone—its turbulence, its tawniness, its feline treachery, its giant caprices.
From The River and I by John G. Neihardt
The ingredients had already been mingled indistinguishably in that rich, undulating mass of tawniness which proclaims perfection.
From A Christmas Garland by Sir Max Beerbohm
