All 4 Uses of
fawn
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- The dog yelped running to them, reared up and pawed them, dropping on all fours, again reared up at them with mute bearish fawning.
Chpt 3 *fawning = showing excessive affection
- Drawing back his head and gazing far from beneath his vailed eyelids he saw the bright fawn skin shine in the glare, the braided drums.†
Chpt 5
- BLOOM: (In an oatmeal sporting suit, a sprig of woodbine in the lapel, tony buff shirt, shepherd's plaid Saint Andrew's cross scarftie, white spats, fawn dustcoat on his arm, tawny red brogues, fieldglasses in bandolier and a grey billycock hat) Do you remember a long long time, years and years ago, just after Milly, Marionette we called her, was weaned when we all went together to Fairyhouse races, was it?†
Chpt 15
- THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS: (In amazon costume, hard hat, jackboots cockspurred, vermilion waistcoat, fawn musketeer gauntlets with braided drums, long train held up and hunting crop with which she strikes her welt constantly) Also me.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(fawn as in: fawned all over her) showing excessive flattery or affection
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) "Fawn" more commonly describes a young deer.