Word of the Day for Thursday, October 13, 2011
flaxen \FLAK-suhn\, adjective:
1. Of the pale yellowish color of dressed flax or linen.
2. Resembling flax.
3. Pertaining to flax.
4. Made of flax.
I wonder if the B.O. will be trading out his male flaxen haired V.P. for a female flaxen haired replacement?
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
The man with the flaxen beard rushed across to tell him and then hurried out by the archway.-- H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
From it there descended two men - one flaxen haired and tall, and the other dark haired and of slighter build.-- Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
Flaxen, related to flax, is probably from Proto-Germanic base fleh-, meaning "to weave, plait."
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