There stood a little boy, almost naked; the water trickled down from his long flaxen hair; he was shivering with cold, and had he been left much longer out in the street, he would certainly have perished in the storm.
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Flaxen
//ˈflæk.sən//
Synonyms for "flaxen" (20 found)
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Translations
29 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- ленен adj (material)
- светложълт adj (color)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 亚麻色 adj (color)
Danish
1 entries- hørfarvet adj (material)
Dutch
2 entries- vlasblond adj (color)
- vlassen adj (material)
Finnish
2 entries- pellavainen adj (material)
- pellavan värinen adj (color)
French
1 entries- de lin adj (color)
German
2 entries- flachsen adj (material)
- flachsfarben adj (color)
Hungarian
1 entries- lenszőke adj (color)
Ingrian
1 entries- pellovain adj (material)
Irish
2 entries- buíbhán adj (color)
- fionn adj (color)
Japanese
2 entries- 亜麻色の adj (color)
- 亜麻製の adj (material)
Latin
2 entries- flāvus adj (color)
- līneus adj (material)
Middle English
1 entries- flaxen adj (material)
Māori
1 entries- kōrito adj (color)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صاری adj (color)
Polish
3 entries- jasnobrązowy adj (color)
- lniany adj (material)
- lniany adj (color)
Portuguese
1 entries- cor de linho adj (color)
Russian
2 entries- льно́вый adj (material)
- льняно́й adj (material)
Swedish
1 entries- lingul adj (color)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The couple and their children have flaxen hair.
Source: wiktionary
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