straw-colouredstraw-coloredadj.
Of the colour of straw; pale light yellow.
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gull13..
flaxen?1523
palew1547
straw-coloured1585
branlie1589
straw colour1589
flaxy1634
festucine1646
sulphureous1656
flaxenish1661
butter colour1665
strawy1668
straw-yellow1794
bombycinous1796
sulphur-coloured1811
sherry-yellow1813
sulphur-yellow1816
bombasic1825
straw1842
wax-coloured1842
stramineous1845
maize-coloured1852
daffodil1855
daw1856
flax1873
sherry-coloured1875
mastic1890
sulpho-chromic1895
ochroid1897
wheat-coloured1898
sulphurous1899
sulphury1900
tea rose1900
straw-pale1922
1585 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 111 A strawe couloured fustion dublet laide on with red Lace.
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. v. 47 The next vrine was of a pale straw coloured yellow.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 145 St. Paul's Church-yard-pump. upon evaporation, gives a straw-colored matter.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 279 Straw~coloured (Stramineus). Pale yellow with a very faint tint of blue.
1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 311 The Straw-coloured Bat,..Natalus stramineus.
1898 A. Conan Doyle Trag. Korosko ix. 296 A straw-coloured moustache.
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