fawn

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1. a young deer of either sex aged under one year

a. a light greyish-brown colour

b. (as adjective): a fawn raincoat

3. in fawn (of deer) pregnant

References in classic literature ?

It may be worth thinking of by Fawners of all denominations--in Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul's Cathedral put together, on any Sunday in the year.

Synonyms, it went on, include "toady, yes man, flunky, fawner, flatterer.

She is a flatterer and a fawner, and "her food, of course, swam in oil and was nasty" (14; emphasis mine).

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