Definitions
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- adjective of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather
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Examples
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It was green, green, green -- the blue-green of the springing year, and sere and yellow green and tawny-brown green of autumn.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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A young lad with tawny-brown hair, long-limbed and tall for his years, rallied them, urged them to hold fast.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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A young lad with tawny-brown hair, long-limbed and tall for his years, rallied them, urged them to hold fast.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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A young lad with tawny-brown hair, long-limbed and tall for his years, rallied them, urged them to hold fast.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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He had just time to notice that the arm round his neck was naked and of a tawny-brown colour, before his eyes were bandaged, his mouth was gagged, and he was thrown helpless on the floor by (as he judged) two men.
The Moonstone 2003
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A thin blouse and exiguous shorts showed most of her tawny-brown skin to the sun.
The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985
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The Paonese are a homogeneous people, of medium stature, fair-skinned with hair-color ranging from tawny-brown to brown-black, with no great variations of feature or physique.
The Languages of Pao Vance, Jack, 1916- 1958
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The museum was an anniversary site Nawin and his wife had in fact gone to on a number of occasions to commemorate their youthful meetings there, and to see the freakish human pottery of tawny-brown or tanned ochre that had been of such comfort to them as teenagers.
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The bustard is of a pale grey on the neck and white beneath, but the back is beautifully barred with russet and black, while in the male a band of deep tawny-brown -- in some examples approaching a claret-colour -- descends from either shoulder and forms a broad gorget on the breast.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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It was green, green, green -- the blue-green of the springing year, and sere and yellow green and tawny-brown green of autumn.
Chapter 28 1914
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