FLAXEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flaxen mean? 

• FLAXEN (adjective)
  The adjective FLAXEN has 1 sense:

1. of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown

  Familiarity information: FLAXEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAXEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown

Synonyms:

flaxen; sandy

Context example:

flaxen locks

Similar:

blond; blonde; light-haired (being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes)

 Context examples 

A musical little voice answered, from somewhere upstairs, “I am coming, grandfather!” and a pretty little girl with long, flaxen, curling hair, soon came running into the shop.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mark well the man with the high nose and flaxen beard who hath placed his hand upon the shoulder of the dark hard-faced cavalier in the rust-stained jupon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In all things I have been a half-way man, for I am of middle height, my eyes are neither blue nor grey, and my hair, before Nature dusted it with her powder, was betwixt flaxen and brown.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Reed might be at that time some six or seven and thirty; she was a woman of robust frame, square-shouldered and strong-limbed, not tall, and, though stout, not obese: she had a somewhat large face, the under jaw being much developed and very solid; her brow was low, her chin large and prominent, mouth and nose sufficiently regular; under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth; her skin was dark and opaque, her hair nearly flaxen; her constitution was sound as a bell—illness never came near her; she was an exact, clever manager; her household and tenantry were thoroughly under her control; her children only at times defied her authority and laughed it to scorn; she dressed well, and had a presence and port calculated to set off handsome attire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She is a little girl, in a spencer, with a round face and curly flaxen hair.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The younger archers, with their coats of mail thrown aside, their brown or flaxen hair tossing in the wind, and their jerkins turned back to give free play to their brawny chests and arms, stood in lines, each loosing his shaft in turn, while Johnston, Aylward, Black Simon, and half-a-score of the elders lounged up and down with critical eyes, and a word of rough praise or of curt censure for the marksmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had eluded pursuit, and was going to America in a flaxen wig, and whiskers, and such a complete disguise as never you see in all your born days; when the little woman, being in Southampton, met him walking along the street—picked him out with her sharp eye in a moment—ran betwixt his legs to upset him—and held on to him like grim Death.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)