tawny.

Brown with a warm yellow or orange tinge.

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• tawny fur

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Tawny fur shone in the beam.

The tawny grass bent under the wind.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a color or relational classification; degree comparisons depend on descriptive context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.