flaxen
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˈflaksən/
- With her flaxen strands flowing down her back, she looked like a princess.
- flaxen hair
- flaxen tresses
- flaxen-haired
Examples
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The bride was sixteen: high-spirited and high-colored, her flaxen hair wound up in tight rolls beneath her bridal tiara to form the curving lobes of a playing card heart.
Academic text (1999) -
Sarah, fifteen years old, with flaxen hair and bright blue eyes, approaches Macleod with a water pail.
Fiction book (1994) -
- I mean, beautiful... ...flaxen-haired lady who tells him what to do.
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What am I bid for this flaxen-haired Teutonic beauty?
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At the restaurant he managed, a flaxen-haired young waitress flirted with him as a matter of course.
Fiction book (1991) -
"All the little boys and girls "with rosy cheeks and flaxen curls.
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Abruptly, Amy appeared, a flaxen-haired young woman in a crumpled orange dress.
Fiction book (2000) -
Her sleek and delicate profile was limned by her lustrous flaxen hair, which appeared to glow in the half-light.
Fiction book (2001) -
The young girl had beautiful flaxen hair that shimmered in the sunlight.
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He admired the flaxen locks of the child playing in the garden.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having pale yellow or light brown hair
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1.1
Slightly yellow in color
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1.0
A pale yellow color like dry grain
1
2.3
White with a slight yellow tint
1
1.3
A pale yellow color like dry stalks of grain
1
5.3
A pale yellowish brown color like ripe wheat
1
4.8
A pale light brown color like dry cereal grain
Having a yellow color like an egg yolk
Antonyms
How Pale
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flaxen comes from the plant flax and the ending -en, which turns the word into a describing word. Because flax has pale yellow fibers used for linen, flaxen means 'like the pale yellow color of flax', especially for hair.