tawny
a. 黄褐色的, 茶色的 n. 黄褐色
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A light brown to brownish orange colour.
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A light brown to brownish orange colour.
Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”).
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Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
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Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
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In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
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A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
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A person with skin of a brown colour.
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Tawny frogmouth.
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Tawny owl.
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To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
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To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
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Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold.
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From Middle English tauni, tawne (“brownish-orange colour; cloth of this colour; sweet beverage of this colour”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman tawné, and Old French tané, tanné, tanney (“tan colour; cloth of this colour”), from tané (verb): see further at etymology 1. Sense 2.1 (“Eurasian bullfinch”) is due to the brown colour of the female.
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