straw-colored
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2.7
- adjective
- /strɔː ˈkʌlərd/
:
color paja
- "Yes?" The receptionist was a sulky-looking girl, with fat pink lips and frizzy straw-colored hair.
- straw-colored hair
- thin straw-colored
- long straw-colored
Examples
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He admired the straw-colored fields under the summer sun as they stretched across the horizon.
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He ran his hands through his straw-colored hair, making it stand on end.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her hair was silky, straw-colored, its color made more dramatic by the backdrop of the black dress.
Fiction book (1997) -
Her long straw-colored hair was pulled, as usual, back and up, showing a faint constellation of pimples on her forehead.
Fiction book (1994) -
She was so pretty with her sprouts of straw-colored hair like Pink's and her tiny pointed ears.
Fiction book (1990) -
As she put her laundry away, she imagined Flynn's small dark head tucked beneath his chin, his straw-colored hair bright against the navy blue wall.
Fiction book (1999) -
And yet he had been attractive to women once, a slim blondish young man, always young-looking even with the mustache that he wore for some years, straw-colored and thick.
Fiction book (1990) -
A round, florid-faced, jovial-looking man with thinning straw-colored hair that he wore down to his collar, Blyleven seemed to have a grandfatherly smile etched permanently on his face.
Fiction book (2001) -
The young girl wore her hair in two straw-colored braids that danced in the breeze.
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The artist chose a straw-colored paint to capture the warmth of the sunlight in her landscape.
Synonyms
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1.0
The color of a lemon or sunflower
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1.1
Slightly yellow in color
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1.8
Having a pale yellow color like dry stalks of grain
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2.5
Having a pale yellowish-white color like fresh cream
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1.0
A light yellow colour that looks soft and not bright
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2.3
White with a slight yellow tint
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2.5
A pale white color with a little yellow
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5.7
A pale yellow-brown color like light leather
Pale yellowish white like fresh cream
Slightly yellow in color
A pale yellowish brown color like ripe wheat
Antonyms
How Pale
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Straw-colored comes from straw, the dry yellow stalks left after grain is cut, and -colored, which means 'having the color of'. So, straw-colored means 'pale yellow' like dry straw, a simple image that makes the color easy to remember.