flaxen
Example Sentences
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To raise funds for the charity, which she founded 30 years ago, she has now decided to part with a picture of a Welsh cob called Goldie, a stunning chestnut with flaxen mane and tale.
From The Guardian
Like their mother, they all have flaxen blond hair and piercing cornflower blue eyes.
From New York Times
We’d gone back and forth about whether to use real candles instead of LED ones, but of course Astrid had won, throwing back her flaxen head in triumph.
From Salon
When the men wax ecstatic about their “shining, gleaming, streaming” locks, it’s hard not to notice the receding hairlines and hair that’s more salt-and-pepper than flaxen and waxen.
From New York Times
The almond shape of my brown eyes didn’t sit as well as the pretty blue eyes I imagined having beneath the flaxen bangs.
From New York Times
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