tow-coloured
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He was a florid man of thirty, with tow-coloured hair and blue eyes.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
Tall and gawky as he was in person, with tow-coloured hair, and a scanty suit of shabbiest homespun, his appearance excited astonishment or ridicule wherever he went.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Dickinson, Asa Don
He had stripped his furs off, and sat with his knees drawn up on one of the skins, a little, plump, round-faced man, with tow-coloured hair, and eyes that gleamed shrewdly behind his spectacles.
From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus
She indicated the Slabberts, heavily observant of the couple with the muddy eyes under the tow-coloured thatch.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
She had two braids of lank, thick, tow-coloured hair and very odd eyes—"white eyes," the manse children thought, as she stared at them half defiantly, half piteously.
From Rainbow Valley by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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