I. noun
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Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle, only to die within a few months.
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Colours were brutal and depressing; dank shades like dung and army-blanket fawn .
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She has two young calves that look remarkably like fawns without spots.
II. adjective
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A fawn jacket over the top.
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Her hair was a thick glossy bush of pale fawn brown, not quite shoulder-length.
III. verb
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Everyone crowded round, fawning at him and readily taking up his offer of free drinks.
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The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses.
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The Salomon salesmen fawn over the thrift men.