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Definition of Tawniest
1. tawny [adj] - See also: tawny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tawniest
Literary usage of Tawniest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... a gamut of exquisite color from tawniest brown to cold sage, lay on or beneath
the water ; the desolation was complete; there was no link to connect the ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1859)
"... drinking champagne and beer, the sweetest Con- stantia and the tawniest port,
all together, with every appearance of the extremest relish. ..."
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1873)
"... or delicate creature,"—as if we should say, 'the tiny-tawniest little creature.'
If we prosecuted our examination through the whole list of names, ..."
4. My Miscellanies by Wilkie Collins (1893)
"... drinking Champagne and beer, the sweetest Constantia and the tawniest port,
all together, with every appearance of the extremest relish. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1881)
"One wore a bright blue coat faced with scarlet, another had chosen his cloth of
the tawniest orange. Their straw hats were encircled with a band of down and ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1881)
"One wore a bright blue coat faced with scarlet, another had chosen his cloth of
the tawniest orange. Their straw hats were encircled with a band of down and ..."
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