flaxen en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈflæk.sən/
Etymology
From Middle English flaxen, flexon, flexin, from Old English fleaxen (“of flax; flaxen”), equivalent to flax + -en (“made of”). Compare Dutch vlassen.
Meanings
- Made of or resembling flax fibers.
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(of hair) A pale yellow brown as of dried flax; blonde.
The couple and their children have flaxen hair.
In Snorri's Skaldskaparmal (see Faulkes 1998 [1987]: 96), Loki cropped Sif’s (presumably blonde or flaxen) hair, seemingly out of spite, a cropping which compares to the harvesting of corn.
2005, Nathan J. Johnson, Robert J. Wallis, Galdrbok: Practical Heathen Runecraft, Shamanism and Magic, page 309:
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Translations (29)
da hørfarvet (material) · fi pellavan värinen (color) · nl vlasblond (color) · bg ленен (material) · de flachsfarben (color) · hu lenszőke (color) · pl lniany (material) · mi kōrito (color) · la līneus (material) · ru льняно́й (material) · ru льно́вый (material) · ga fionn (color) · ja 亜麻色の (color) · enm flaxen (material) · de flachsen (material) · cmn 亚麻色 (color) · fr de lin (color) · izh pellovain (material) · pl lniany (color) · bg светложълт (color) · pl jasnobrązowy (color) · fi pellavainen (material) · pt cor de linho (color) · sv lingul (color) · la flāvus (color) · ja 亜麻製の (material) · ota صاری (color) · ga buíbhán (color) · nl vlassen (material)