Jane Eyre vocabulary

3 colors on the more obscure end of the Crayola box mentioned

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tawny
cerise
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tawny

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Definition:
Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Ignatius glared at the young man’s tawny velvet jacket and mauve cashmere sweater and the wave of blond hair that fell over the forehead of his sharp, glittering face.

John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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