The color of straw, a pale yellow. Also attrib. or adj. = STRAW-COLOURED.

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1589.  Acc. Bk. W. Wray, in Antiquary, XXXII. 78/2. vii qtrs stroye coler canvesse, vis. viiid.

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1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., I. ii. 95. I will discharge it, in either your straw-colour beard, your orange tawnie beard [etc.].

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1737.  W. Salmon, Country Builder’s Estimator (ed. 2), 101. Orange-Colour, Lemon-Colour, Straw-Colour, Pink-Colour, and Blossom-Colour, ground in Oil, from 10d. to 1s. per lb.

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1815.  Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., IX. I. 184. This bird is sometimes found entirely of a pale straw-colour.

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1882.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., VI. 289. It is of a bright straw colour when living.

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