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straw yellow

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noun

a pale yellow; straw color.

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Words nearby straw yellow

straw vote, strawweight, straw wine, strawworm, strawy, straw yellow, stray, Strayhorn, strays, strayve, streak

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How to use straw yellow in a sentence

Withamite is a carmine-red to straw-yellow, strongly pleochroic variety from Glencoe in Scotland.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6|Various
Overdone assays show a straw yellow colour which deepens on standing.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer
Some are dark-brown, others reddish, and others again straw-yellow, as in Baluchistan.
From Pole to Pole|Sven Anders Hedin
The straw-yellow of the last phase is of course the fusion-color of the red and green glasses.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1|Various

A very fast pendulum shows only a horizontal straw-yellow band on a green field (Fig. 8:5).
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1|Various