straw-coloured, a.
Of the colour of straw; pale light yellow.
| 1585 in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. V. 111 A strawe couloured fustion dublet laide on with red Lace. 1625 Hart Anat. Ur. i. v. 47 The next vrine was of a pale straw coloured yellow. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 145 St. Paul's Church-yard-pump. upon evaporation, gives a straw-colored matter. 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 279 Straw⁓coloured (Stramineus). Pale yellow with a very faint tint of blue. 1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 311 The Straw-coloured Bat,..Natalus stramineus. 1898 Conan Doyle Tragedy of Korosko ix. 296 A straw-coloured moustache. |