All 4 Uses of

fawn
in
The Swiss Family Robinson

We named the two puppies Bruno and Fawn, and so ended this important domestic business.†
Chpt 9

The dogs sniffed about in the grass while Fritz was away after the rabbits, out popped these little fawns and away they went bounding and skipping, at the rate of thirty miles an hour, with Storm, Grumble and the dogs at their heels.†
Chpt 13

'Oh, well, father, perhaps we did not ride for quite a quarter of an hour, and, of course, I can't say exactly how fast we were going; and then, you see, the fawns did not run in a straight line; at any rate Fritz heard us, and he and Franz and I leashed the legs of the pretty creatures, and then we mounted again, and presently saw a wretch of a cuckoo, who led us ever so far out of our course by cuckooing and making faces at us and then hopping away.†
Chpt 13

I think I will get mother to bathe it for me,' and off rushed the noisy boy, leaving Fritz and me to see to the fawns and examine the rabbits.†
Chpt 13 *

Definitions:

(1) (fawn as in: fawned all over her)
showing excessive flattery or affection
(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:

"Fawn" more commonly describes a young deer.