tawny• It made Fabio think of some huge, tawny animal.• Her hair was dyedtawnybrown and carefully waved.• She looked like a sleek, tawnycat about to pounce on its prey.• But then I saw her face within her tangle of tawny hair - unmistakably young and female.• And it's only the tawnyowl who goes tu-whit-tu-whoo.• Wardens find him sitting in a fakeoaktree beside the replica of a female tawny owl.• Sweep a brush across the four shades, from lightest sand to tawnyterracotta, and dust over your face.• It was another female, but small and insignificant-looking, with tawnywings whose gloss had faded.
Origintawny
(1300-1400)Old Frenchtanné, past participle of tanner; → TAN1