Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chromatic variety of straw-color, or a yellow verging upon straw-color.
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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
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Interspersed at irregular distances were small concentrations of lighter-colored animals, muted straw-yellow and gold.
Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005
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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.
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She looked like a skinny scarecrow: bright painted face, straw-yellow hair with black roots, skinny wrists and ankles.
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She looked like a skinny scarecrow: bright painted face, straw-yellow hair with black roots, skinny wrists and ankles.
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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
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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
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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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