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    Tawny is a warm brownish-yellow — the colour of a lion, of dry grass at the end of summer, of strong tea, of an owl's feathers.

    Tawny is a warm brownish-yellowTawny是一種帶暖意的黃棕色 — the colour of a lion, of dry grass at the end of summer, of strong tea, of an owl's feathers──就像獅子的毛色、夏末乾枯的草、濃茶、或貓頭鷹羽毛的顏色。

    It is an adjective, and it sits mostly in writing rather than speech: nature books, poetry, wine labels, descriptions of animals and hair and skin. You will meet it in fixed pairings more than anywhere else: a tawny owl (a real species in Britain), tawny port (a port wine aged until it turns brown), a tawny mane.

    It is an adjective它是形容詞， and it sits mostly in writing rather than speech而且大多出現在書面文字，而不是口語裡： nature books, poetry, wine labels, descriptions of animals and hair and skin像是自然科普書、詩、酒標、還有描寫動物、頭髮、皮膚的文字。 You will meet it in fixed pairings more than anywhere else你最常會在固定搭配的詞組裡遇到它： a tawny owl (a real species in Britain)像tawny owl（英國真的有這個貓頭鷹品種）， tawny port (a port wine aged until it turns brown)tawny port（一種陳放到變成棕色的波特酒）， a tawny mane或是tawny mane（棕黃色的鬃毛）。

    The colour is always warm — never a grey brown, never a cold brown. If someone describes eyes or hair as tawny, they mean golden-brown and they mean it .

    The colour is always warm這個顏色永遠是帶暖意的 — never a grey brown, never a cold brown──絕不是灰棕色，也絕不是冷調的棕色。 If someone describes eyes or hair as tawny如果有人用tawny形容眼睛或頭髮， they mean golden-brown他們指的是金棕色， and they mean it admiringly而且是帶著讚賞的語氣在說。

    Because it is a literary word, using it in ordinary conversation about, say, your shoes would sound odd — people would just say brown.

    Because it is a literary word因為它是個文學性的字， using it in ordinary conversation about, say, your shoes would sound odd如果在日常對話裡用它來講，比如說，你的鞋子，會顯得很奇怪 — people would just say brown──一般人就只會說brown（棕色）。

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組成It came through Middle English and Old French tané, from the verb 'to tan' — turning animal hide into leather using pulped oak bark. Leather tanned that way came out this warm brown, so the colour took the name of the process.

同家族的字

  • tanthe same root — the leather-making process that gave the colour its name
  • tanninfrom the same tanbark used in tanning; it is what makes tea and red wine taste dry

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

tawnyadj詞源 1/ˈtɔːni/

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    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: […]
    • The VVooſell cock, ſo blacke of hevve, / VVith Orange tavvny bill, / The Throſtle, vvith his note ſo true, / The VVren, vvith little quill.

tawnyverb詞源 1/ˈtɔːni/

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    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.
    • He [Vulcan] ſmels all ſmoake, and vvith his naſty ſvveate / Tavvnies my skinne, out on him vgly knaue, / Mars is my loue, and he my ſvveets ſhall haue.
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    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— […]
    • In his drowse it all turned gleaming and mixing in him, his whole life, like the river gleaming taut between the trees. And everything that had ever happened to him tawnied over by the voluptuous light of the last fall, and his mouth watered for it all.

tawnynoun詞源 2/ˈtɔːni/

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    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.
    • Despise not my discolour'd look: / This tawny from the sun I took.
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    governmentheraldryhobbiesA light brown to brownish orange colour.

    • [T]he Herehaught [herald] muſt have a ſinguler reſpect to the face of him that ſhould haue the Armes, vvhere he ſhal vvel perceiue in vvhat ſeaſõ of the yere, his ovvn complexion vvill ſerue him to do beſt ſeruice in: […] If in Somer, either a Hound or Salamandra, or ſome part of them, of the colour Bruske, vvhich is betvveene Geules and tavvney.
    • Tavvny (ſaith Leigh [i.e., Gerard Legh]) is a Colour of vvorſhip, and of ſome Heralds it is called Bruske, and is moſt commonly borne of French Gentlemen, but very fevv doe beare it in England. In Blazon it is knovvne by the name of Tenne. It is (ſaith he) the ſureſt colour that is (of ſo bright a hevv being compounded) for it is made of tvvo bright Colours, vvhich are Red and Yellovv: […]
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    Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).

    • Iohn VVittie his great tavvny Gilloflovver is for forme of grovving, in leafe and flovver altogether like vnto the ordinary tavvny, the flovver onely, becauſe it is the faireſt and greateſt that any other hath nourſed vp, maketh the difference, as alſo that it is of a faire deepe ſcarlet colour. There are alſo diuers other Tavvnies, either lighter or ſadder, either leſſe or more double, that they cannot be numbered, and all riſing (as I ſaid before) from ſovving the ſeede of ſome of them: […]
    • The Tawny Owl may easily be induced, under favourable conditions, to take up its quarters near the houses of men. The writer is familiar with a pair of Tawnies which have nested for many years in one of several covered-in boxes fitted up in the trees that overhang the shrubberies in the grounds. […] There are other Tawnies in the woods and parks about, but this pair are the lords of their own district, for like all birds of prey they require a large area for their hunt for food.
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    Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).

    • TAWNY. A bullfinch. Somerset.
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    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.
    • A ten-year-old tawny is a good place to start with a tawny port novice, who might otherwise be put off by the oxidized flavors (i.e., more wood and earth notes than fruit) that come with a very old tawny.
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    obsoleteA fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.

    • [N]o perſone, or perſones, occupiyng the ſeate of diẽg, ſhal die, or altre into colours, or cauſe to be died, or altred into colours, any wollen clothes, as broune blewes, pieukes, tawnies, or violettes, except the ſame wollẽ clothes be perfeictly boiled, greined or madered vpon the woade, & ſhot with good, and ſufficient corke, or orchal after a due, ſubſtancial, & ſufficient maner of workemanſhip, according to thauncient workmanſhip in time paſt vſed, vpõ peine for euery defalt to forfeite .xx. s̃.
    • 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.
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    obsoleteA 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.
    • Senegal ſeparates the Azoaghes, Moors or Tavvnies, from the real Blacks; ſo that on one ſide of the River are the Moors of a Tavvny Complexion, and the other is Inhabited by People that are perfectly Black.
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    Tawny frogmouth.

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    Tawny owl.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。