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auburn, a.|ˈɔːbɜːn|
Forms: 5–7 aborne, -ourne, 6 alborne, auberne, aberne, 6–7 auborn(e, abourn, aburn(e, 9 auburne, 8– auburn; also 6 abron, abrun(e, 7 abroun, abrown.
[a. OF. alborne, auborne:—L. alburnus (= subalbus, Du Cange) nearly white, whitish. In 16–17th c. written abron, abrune, abroun (cf. apron, aperne), which prob. originated, or at least encouraged, the idea that auburn was a kind of brown (an etymology actually adopted by Richardson), and so helped to modify the signification of the word.]
orig. Of a yellowish- or brownish-white colour; now, of a golden-brown or ruddy-brown colour.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xv, Aborne heyr crispyng for thicknesse. 1481Caxton Myrr. ii. xvii. 103 The rayes of the sonne make the heer of a man abourne or blounde. 1533Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 2 Heare blacke or darke aburne. 1547Boorde Brev. Health lvi. 25 Alborne heare and yelowe heare commethe of a gentyl nature. 1576T. N[ewton] Lemnie's Touchst. Complex. (1633) 58 Faire aburne or chesten colour. 1580Baret Alv. A 715 Light auborne, subflauus, subrutilus. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Rojo, abrun headed, Subrufus. 1599Hall Sat. iii. v. 8 Whose curled head With abron locks was fairely furnished. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Jas. I Wks. 1711, 16 His hair was abourn, a colour between white and red. a1697in Masson Milton (1859) I. 275 ‘He had light brown hair,’ continues Aubrey,—putting the word ‘abrown’ (‘auburn’) in the margin by way of synonym for ‘light brown.’ 1808Scott Marm. v. ix, And auburn of the darkest dye, His short curled beard and hair. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede 61 The rays..lit up her pale red hair to auburn.
b. absol. quasi-n.
1852D. Moir Christm. Musings v. Wks. II. 254 Thy tresses in the breeze Floating their auburn. |