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Tawniness

Tawniness \Taw"ni*ness\, n. The quality or state of being tawny.

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tawniness

n. The quality or state of being tawny.

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tawniness

n. a tawny complexion

Usage examples of "tawniness".

It accentuated his pallor far more than the white one had, and made plainer to my eyes the slight tawniness his skin, eyes, and hair were beginning to possess.

With a final effort he lurched through it and saw ahead of him a rising slope of ground that went up and never seemed to stop, ground covered with the beautiful tawniness of sun-dried grass, broken by rocky ledges thrusting from the slope, dotted by clumps of bushes and here and there a tree.

Beyond, hills lifted in tawniness darkened by trees and lightened by homes.

He could perceive the tawniness of the unconscious hrinn's fur again, the red of her robes.