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tawny

[taw-nee] / ˈtɔ ni /


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From autumn, the project will also be aiming to offer "real estate" for wild barn, tawny and little owls, with nest boxes at the Bishop Auckland site and spots from Northumberland down to North Yorkshire.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Folan would often describe her early years of marriage and motherhood, in an idyllic white house in a tawny Connecticut suburb, as looking blissful on the surface.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

In the picturesque community of Eddington, among the tawny deserts and quaint antique shops, things are quickly coming apart at the seams during the final weeks of May 2020.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2025

The young tawny cougar with the broad, handsome features headed east for nearly 50 miles to escape his father, wandering through whatever green spaces he could find “and probably more than few backyards,” Pratt said.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2024

The Princess was always brightest in spring, just after the conifers emerged from the snow, their deep green needles seeming almost black against the tawny browns of soil and bark.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The line includes an excellent Douro Reserve for just a few dollars more and some outstanding new ports, a white port and 10-, 20- and 30-year-old tawnies.

From Washington Post Oct. 8, 2020

The owls were flying directly at the Burrow, three handsome tawnies, each of which, it became clear as they flew lower over the path leading up to the house, was carrying a large square envelope.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

The fronts of the houses are of all imaginable pale tints,—stone colors, pinks, greens, greys, and tawnies.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

The sauce is a touch spicier and tawnier in color than King’s but basically the same.

From Washington Post Aug. 28, 2016

Soon after the tawnier russets, like Egremont and the excellent Laxton's Superb, are being harvested.

From The Guardian Mar. 14, 2011

The stars have zero chemistry here, but they'd be ideal co-hosts for a 4 a.m. infomercial on tauter abs and tawnier tans.

From Time Magazine Archive

She rarely rode otherwise than bare-headed, and the high-rolled masses of her hair had grown tawnier and redder for that reason.

From The Law of the Land by Hough, Emerson

From E. u. fremonti, the subspecies from the mountains of western and northwestern Wyoming, E. u. montanus differs in: General tone of upper parts lighter; hairs around outermost edge of tail tawnier.

From Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus by White, John A.




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