tawny

Meanings

Adjective

• Of a light brown to brownish orange color.
• A sweet, fortified wine which is blended and matured in wood.

Noun

• A light brown to brownish orange colour.

Related

Similar words

• fulvous

Origin

• From Middle English tawne, from Anglo-Norman tawné, from Old French tané, past participle of taner, from tan, from Gaulish tanno ("holm oak"), from Proto-Celtic *tanno- ("green oak"), of uncertain further origin. Compare Breton tann, Old Irish caerthann ("rowan").