Flax (color)

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Flax or Flaxen is a pale yellowish-gray, the color of straw or unspun dressed flax. An early use of "flaxen" to describe hair color appears in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens: Mr. Omer's granddaughter, Minnie, is described as "a pretty little girl with long, flaxen, curling hair." The first recorded use of flax as a color name in English was in 1915.

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Flax in culture

Literature

• In the novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, the character Montgomery has flaxen hair.
• In the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the girl Ermengarde St. John is described as having flaxen hair.
• Dr Kemp, a character from The Invisible Man, is described as having "flaxen hair"
• Zossimov, a character from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, is described as having "straight flaxen hair."
• In A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, Tobias Gregson has flaxen hair.
• In David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Mr. Omer's granddaughter Minnie is described as "a pretty little girl with long, flaxen, curling hair".
• In the book Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter, the main character Pollyanna is known for her "flaxen hair"

Music

• French impressionistic composer Claude Debussy's prelude N.8 Book 1 for Piano, La fille aux cheveux de lin ("The Girl with the Flaxen Hair"), uses the color flax in its title.

Anime

• In the series Legend of the Legendary Heroes, Ferris is shown to have flaxen hair

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References

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See also

• List of colors
• Flaxen gene

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