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straw-coloured, a.
Of the colour of straw; pale light yellow.
1585in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. V. 111 A strawe couloured fustion dublet laide on with red Lace. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. i. v. 47 The next vrine was of a pale straw coloured yellow. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 145 St. Paul's Church-yard-pump. upon evaporation, gives a straw-colored matter. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 279 Straw⁓coloured (Stramineus). Pale yellow with a very faint tint of blue. 1871Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 311 The Straw-coloured Bat,..Natalus stramineus. 1898Conan Doyle Tragedy of Korosko ix. 296 A straw-coloured moustache. |