Blonde vs. Tawny — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Blonde and Tawny
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Blonde
(of hair) fair or pale yellow
Her long blonde hair
I had my hair dyed blonde
Tawny
A light brown to brownish orange.
Blonde
A person with fair or pale yellow hair (typically used of a woman).
Tawny
Of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
Blonde
Having fair hair and skin
Blond Scandinavians.
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Tawny
(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
Blonde
Of a flaxen or golden color or of any light shade of auburn or pale yellowish brown
Blond hair.
Tawny
(intransitive) To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
Blonde
Light-colored through bleaching
Blond furniture.
Tawny
A light brown to brownish orange colour.
Blonde
A person with fair hair and skin.
Tawny
Synonym of tenné
Dragon's head
Blonde
A light yellowish brown to dark grayish yellow.
Tawny
Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
Blonde
Alternative form of blond
Tawny
(Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
Blonde
Alternative form of blond.
Tawny
(alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
Blonde
A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.
Tawny
(obsolete)
Blonde
Alternative form of blond
Tawny
A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
Blonde
Stupid, ignorant, naive.
Tawny
A person with skin of a brown colour.
Blonde
A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes.
Tawny
Tawny frogmouth.
Blonde
A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; - called also blond lace.
Tawny
Tawny owl.
Blonde
A person with fair skin and hair
Tawny
Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
Blonde
Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or gray eyes;
Blond Scandinavians
A house full of light-haired children
Tawny
Of a light brown to brownish orange color
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