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flaxen

[flak-suhn] / ˈflæk sən /




ADJECTIVE
yellowish
Synonyms


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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 • Nov. 6, 2018

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

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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