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taw·ny

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–adjective

1.	of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color.

–noun

2.	a shade of brown tinged with yellow; dull yellowish brown.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME tauny < AF taune < MF tané, ptp. of taner to tan

]

—Related forms

taw·ni·ly, adverb

taw·ni·ness, noun

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taw·ny Audio Help (tô'nē) Pronunciation Key
n. A light brown to brownish orange.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman taune, variant of Old French tane, from past participle of taner, to tan; see tan¹.]

taw'ni·ness n., taw'ny adj.

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tawny

"tan-colored," 1377, from Anglo-Fr. tauné "associated with the brownish-yellow of tanned leather," from O.Fr. tané (12c.), pp. of taner "to tan hides," from M.L. tannare (see tan).

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tawny
adjective
of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather

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tawny [ˈtoːni] adjective

(usually of animals' fur etc) yellowish-brown

Arabic:	أسْمَر مُصَفَّر
Chinese (Simplified):	黄褐色的
Chinese (Traditional):	黃褐色的
Czech:	plavý
Danish:	gyldenbrun
Dutch:	getaand
Estonian:	kollakaspruun
Finnish:	kellanruskea
French:	fauve
German:	gelbbraun
Greek:	καστανόξανθος (για ζώο)
Hungarian:	homokszínű
Icelandic:	gulbrúnn
Indonesian:	coklat kekuningan
Italian:	bruno fulvo*

Japanese:	黄かっ色の
Korean:	황갈색의
Latvian:	dzeltenbrūns
Lithuanian:	gelsvai rusvas
Norwegian:	gyllenbrun
Polish:	śniady, brązowawy
Portuguese (Brazil):	castanho-amarelado
Portuguese (Portugal):	amarelo-acastanhado
Romanian:	arămiu
Russian:	желтовато-коричневый
Slovak:	plavý, žltohnedý
Slovenian:	rjavkasto rumen
Spanish:	leonado
Swedish:	gulbrun, läderfärgad
Turkish:	sarımtrak kahverengi

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Tawny

Tan\, n. [F. tan, perhaps fr. Armor. tann an oak, oak bar; or of Teutonic origin; cf. G. tanne a fir, OHG. tanna a fir, oak, MHG. tan a forest. Cf. Tawny.]

1. The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.

2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.

3. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.

Tan bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed.

Tan pickle, the liquor used in tanning leather.

Tan spud, a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees.

Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark.

Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.

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