| 单词 | tawny-brown |
| 释义 | > as lemmastawny-brown C2. With other names of colour, expressing a modification by tawny, as tawny-brown, etc. ΚΠ 1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 9 iiij yerdes..of sarcenet of tawny grene. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 132 The People were black, or rather of a tawny dark brown. 1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 97 Their Colour a Tawney Olive. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 280 It..becomes of a tawney yellow colour. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 619 For..tawny-gray,..the stuff must receive a previous blue ground by dipping it in the indigo vat. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 2/3 I looked across the desert, tawny~gold beneath the pitiless sun. < as lemmas |
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