A noun "tawny" represents a light brown to brownish orange color, specifically used in heraldry as a synonym for tenné.

A light brown or brownish orange color, particularly associated with the common bullfinch or eurasian bullfinch.

(alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.

A fabric or a person with skin of a light brown to brownish orange color.

Tawny frogmouth.

Tawny owl.

(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.

(intransitive) To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.

Of a light brown to brownish orange colour.