tawny

adjective · verb · nounA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

tawniertawniest

Superlative

tawney

1.
Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold.
Đồng nghĩa: fulvid, fulvous, olivaster, subfuscous, swart, swartish, swarty, brownish, browny, brunneous, brunnescent

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

tawnies

V_ing/Gerund

tawnying

V_ed/pp

tawnied

1.
(transitive)To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
2.
(intransitive)To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

tawniestawnys

1.
(countable, uncountable)A light brown to brownish orange colour.
2.
(countable, uncountable)Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
3.
(countable, uncountable)(alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
4.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
5.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A person with skin of a brown colour.
6.
(countable, uncountable)Tawny frogmouth.
7.
(countable, uncountable)Tawny owl.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

fulvid fulvous olivaster subfuscous swart swartish swartybrownishbrownybrunneousbrunnescent

Cùng gốc / liên quan

tan tawnfulvescentrufofulvous

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Nguồn gốc từ

The adjective is derived from Middle English tauni, tawne (having a brownish-orange colour), from taune, tawné, and Old French tané, tanné, tanney (of a tan colour), an adjective use of the past participle of taner (to turn hide into leather, tan), from tan (pulped oak bark used to tan leather, tanbark), ultimately from *tannos (green oak);