Word of the Day:
flaxen
What It Means
Made of or resembling flax fibers.
A pale yellow brown as of dried flax; blonde.
The couple and their children have flaxen hair.
Flaxen in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English flaxen, flexon, flexin, from Old English fleaxen (“of flax; flaxen”), equivalent to flax + -en (“made of”). Compare Dutch vlassen.
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