tawny

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold.

   “And if any of your nation attempte once to ſtoppe me in my iorney now towards Calais, […] I in my defence ſhall colour and make red your tawny ground with the effuſion of chriſtian bloud: […]”

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

   “So many friends, their friendſhips daily breake, / That fevve are faithfull, if that fevve be any: / The Sunne ſo ſoone, the painted face vvill tavvny.”

3. fiil To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.

   “The countenance alone bespoke the years and the cares of John M‘Whirter. The deep wrinkled brow—the cheek plaited, and tawnied in the sun and the frosts of the north— […]”

4. isim A light brown to brownish orange colour.

   “Neere to Canuſia, the ſheepe be deepe yellovv or tavvnie; and about Tarentum, they are of a brovvne and duſkiſh colour.”

5. isim Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”).

   “Tenne, vvhich is the tavvny or Orange colour, is marked by diagonal lines dravvn from the Siniſter to the Dexter ſide of the Shield, traverſed by perpendicular lines from the Chief; […]”

6. isim Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
7. isim The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).

   “TAWNY. A bullfinch. Somerset.”

8. isim In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.

   “Tawny is the most versatile Port style. The best tawnies are good-quality wines that have faded to a pale garnet or brownish red color during long wood aging. […] We consider 10- and 20-year-old tawnies the best buys; the older ones aren't always worth the extra bucks.”

9. isim A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.

   “You ſhall doe well to ſend ſuch ſorts [of clothes] as be liuely to the ſight, and ſome blackes for womens garments, with ſome Orenge colours and tawneis.”

10. isim A person with skin of a brown colour.

    “The Tavvnies among vvhom vve came, have VVatered our Soyl, vvith the Blood, of many Hundred of our Inhabitants.”

11. isim Tawny frogmouth.
12. isim Tawny owl.