Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A chromatic variety of straw-color, or a yellow verging upon straw-color.

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Examples

  • This Castello di Borghese 2007 Sauvignon Blanc Estate ($20) is a pale straw-yellow in the glass and while a little timid on the nose, offers candied lemon peel, honeyed citrus, jalapeno pepper and herbs aromas.

    The New York Cork Report: 2009

  • Then, a jaunty straw-yellow Panama hat on his head, his right arm leaning on a walking stick and his left clutched tightly around the elbow of a military aide, he headed for a stone parapet overlooking the canyon, employing a rocking motion that, to distant observers unaware of the crucial support provided by the man at his side, looked very much like walking.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Then, a jaunty straw-yellow Panama hat on his head, his right arm leaning on a walking stick and his left clutched tightly around the elbow of a military aide, he headed for a stone parapet overlooking the canyon, employing a rocking motion that, to distant observers unaware of the crucial support provided by the man at his side, looked very much like walking.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Interspersed at irregular distances were small concentrations of lighter-colored animals, muted straw-yellow and gold.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • From the nape springs a dense mass of feathers of a straw-yellow colour, and about one and a half inches long, forming a mantle over the upper part of the back.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • She looked like a skinny scarecrow: bright painted face, straw-yellow hair with black roots, skinny wrists and ankles.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • She looked like a skinny scarecrow: bright painted face, straw-yellow hair with black roots, skinny wrists and ankles.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • Apparently no one worried about the incongruity of a bathroom opening directly onto a beach, because that was where Coy Joy emerged from, in the midst of primping her pale, straw-yellow hair.

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • Once it is nearly straw-yellow, he slips it over the end of the staff and repeats the quenching.

    The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

  • The young woman was quite pretty, her skin clear, her short hair a clean straw-yellow, her magnified eyes a glowing gray.

    A Cold Red Sunrise Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1988

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