Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pale light-yellow, like dry straw; corn-colored; stramineous: as, the straw-colored bat, Natalus albiventer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under
straw , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Pale yellow , the color ofstraw .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the color of dry straw
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Examples
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The large view of thimbles across straw-colored estuarine marshes struck me as a smooth professional production, and a generous nod toward the art of watercolor, so number 10 wins the prize in the print category.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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It was straw-colored, about three-fourths of an inch long and very much resembled a scorpion although it is not poisonous.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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It was straw-colored, about three-fourths of an inch long and very much resembled a scorpion although it is not poisonous.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The large view of thimbles across straw-colored estuarine marshes struck me as a smooth professional production, and a generous nod toward the art of watercolor, so number 10 wins the prize in the print category.
Friends of the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library Art Show, Stony Creek, Conn. 2009
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It was straw-colored, about three-fourths of an inch long and very much resembled a scorpion although it is not poisonous.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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A bird rose from a bank of straw-colored rushes, its swift, strong wings making a whispering sound that echoed to the opposite shore.
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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It was straw-colored, about three-fourths of an inch long and very much resembled a scorpion although it is not poisonous.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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A bird rose from a bank of straw-colored rushes, its swift, strong wings making a whispering sound that echoed to the opposite shore.
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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A bird rose from a bank of straw-colored rushes, its swift, strong wings making a whispering sound that echoed to the opposite shore.
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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With a notion we could make an eight o'clock of the mainline in Gansevoort and get to Montreal at a manageable hour, we set out upon the dusty curve that rose up over a straw-colored hill.
Locust Valley Breakdown Andrew Edwards 2012
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