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Straw-coloured   /strɔ-kˈələrd/   Listen
Straw-coloured

adjective
1.
Having the color of dry straw.  Synonym: straw-colored.






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"Straw-coloured" Quotes from Famous Books



... which Redcross indulged were still, for the most part, gay with the deeper tints of autumn, the purple of asters and the orange of chrysanthemums setting off the geraniums blossoming on till the frost shrivelled them, and the seeded green and straw-coloured spikes of the still ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler

... have chosen a lovelier place on earth to stroll in. How exquisite it looks just now, with the mellow light falling down upon the path through this beautiful autumnal foliage! It's just a natural cathedral aisle, with a lot of pale straw-coloured glass in the painted windows, like that splendid one we went to see the other ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen

... gone below to the cellar, and had brought up bottles of ruby, straw-coloured, and golden drinks, which had ripened long ago in lands where no fogs are, and had since lain slumbering in the shade. Sparkling and tingling after so long a nap, they pushed at their corks to help the corkscrew (like prisoners helping rioters to force their gates), ...
— The Mystery of Edwin Drood • Charles Dickens

... small straw-coloured moustache with his thumb and middle finger. "There are a few bright spots left, thank you!" He began to explain to a novice what life at the front was really like. Nobody who had seen service talked about the war, or thought about it; it was merely a condition under which ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather



Words linked to "Straw-coloured" :   coloured, colorful, colored



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