Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tawny

Tawny , adjective

[French tanné, past participle of tanner to tan. See Tan, transitive verb & n. Compare Tenné.]

Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
A leopard's tawny and spotted hide. — Longfellow