Definitions
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- adjective having the color of honey
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Examples
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He looked left and saw a young girl in a summery dress, a girl with honey-coloured hair and a straight-backed walk, walking away from the house of the Mysteress.
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Walk across the cobbled streets of Oxford, past the walls of its honey-coloured colleges, and it appears the university is still the academic power it has been for centuries.
Cuts come to a green and pleasant land Jamie Doward 2010
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Sightings suggest it walks upright like a human, its body is covered with black or honey-coloured hair, and it may have a long mane of hair from its head down its back.
On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011
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Now and then she would stop to shake her head, toss her smooth honey-coloured plaits over her shoulders, and screw her face into a caricature Aunt Etta's expression.
Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012
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Rich, honey-coloured and almost brandy-like in texture, it lit a warm fire down my gullet.
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Now and then she would stop to shake her head, toss her smooth honey-coloured plaits over her shoulders, and screw her face into a caricature Aunt Etta's expression.
Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012
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The Holly Bush Inn is an understated, honey-coloured boozer with a giant open range, flagstone floors and a piano that actually gets played (01434 240391, hollybushinn. net).
Love is in the (open) air Nell Card 2010
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"Eat, and thank Providence for such delights as this, which you infidels call ambrosia," says he, while one of his women put the dish of honey-coloured curds before me.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Like the pantiles of North Yorkshire or the honey-coloured stone of Bath, they are not there by accident.
The Riches Beneath Our Feet: How Mining Shaped Britain by Geoff Coyle 2010
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He took the idea for his own and rewarded me by telling me that my pale yellow hair was also misnamed: it was, in truth, honey-coloured.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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