a. Of the color 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.
