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" (23 found)
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Related word relations
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More general
1 entriescolor term
More specific
2 entriesflaxen furflaxen hair
Collocations
6 entriesflaxen colorflaxen hairflaxen hueflaxen locksflaxen tressespale flaxen hair
Inflections
2 entriesmore flaxenmost flaxen
Derivations
1 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
12 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- ленен adj (material)
Danish
1 entries- hørfarvet adj (material)
Dutch
1 entries- vlassen adj (material)
Finnish
1 entries- pellavainen adj (material)
German
1 entries- flachsen adj (material)
Ingrian
1 entries- pellovain adj (material)
Japanese
1 entries- 亜麻製の adj (material)
Latin
1 entries- līneus adj (material)
Middle English
1 entries- flaxen adj (material)
Polish
1 entries- lniany adj (material)
Russian
2 entries- льно́вый adj (material)
- льняно́й adj (material)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The couple and their children have flaxen hair.
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