flaxen

Example Sentences

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In recent years, he has hidden these behind a straggly white mustache and goatee and has grown his flaxen hair down to his shoulders.

From New York Times

You don’t need to be a brilliant detective to discern what phrases like “porcelain skin” or “flaxen hair” mean.

From The Guardian

To raise funds for the charity, which she founded 30 years ago, she has now decided to part with a picture of a Welsh cob called Goldie, a stunning chestnut with flaxen mane and tale.

From The Guardian

Like their mother, they all have flaxen blond hair and piercing cornflower blue eyes.

From New York Times

We’d gone back and forth about whether to use real candles instead of LED ones, but of course Astrid had won, throwing back her flaxen head in triumph.

From Salon