fawny

English

Etymology

fawn +‎ -y

Adjective

fawny (comparative more fawny, superlative most fawny)

  1. Somewhat fawn in colour.
    • 1822, Philip Stansbury, A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America
      The people thus afflicted cried out, that they saw their tormentors though invisible to every body else, in the shape of a little devil of a fawny colour, attended with spectres that had something more human in their forms.
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