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straw colour
The colour of straw, a pale yellow. Also attrib. or adj. = straw-coloured.
1589Acc. Bk. W. Wray in Antiquary XXXII. 78, vij qtrs stroye coler canvesse, vj s. viij d. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. ii. 95, I will discharge it, in either your straw-colour beard, your orange tawnie beard [etc.]. 1737W. Salmon Country Builder's Estimator (ed. 2) 101 Orange-Colour, Lemon-Colour, Straw-Colour, Pink-Colour, and Blossom-Colour, ground in Oil, from 10d. to 1s. per lb. 1815Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 184 This bird is sometimes found entirely of a pale straw-colour. 1882Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 289 It is of a bright straw colour when living. |