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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

fulvus

Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.

Lindley.

Adj.

[L. fulvus.] Yellow; tawny; saffron-colored.

fulvous ‎(not comparable)

Tawny-coloured.
- 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue":
  It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 17:
  The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of fulvous hue.