flaxen
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Hair 13: The shining gleaming streaming flaxen waxen goes bald.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018
He has the mighty flaxen hair of the Norse God of Thunder.
From Golf Digest • Oct. 30, 2018
Nassella tenuissima, or Mexican feather grass, grows low, finely tufted green ponytails that flower into fluffy flaxen strands of 2 feet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2018
“Modeling is such a dull job,” Nico told The Times, while, the writer added, “tossing her flaxen mane.”
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017
She was a tall, painfully thin woman with hair dyed an unnatural flaxen and cropped in a manner reminiscent of Dorothy Hamill.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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