tow-coloured
Britishadjective
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"Well, all right," answered Anson, going over in his turn and looking down at the white face and tow-coloured hair of the little stranger.
From A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen by Hamlin Garland
His ragged, tow-coloured 231 locks he could hide under wisps of horsehair, the paint itself redeemed his freckled skin, but there was no remedy for the white eyelashes and the pale, piggy, blue eyes.
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
The night air ruffled a shock of tow-coloured hair.
From Greenmantle by John Buchan
No; if you want a Tempest pure and simple, look at the man with tow-coloured hair in the further doorway, making running with the little soda-water heiress.
From Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
Miss Torkington brought her tow-coloured hair and pince-nez, and a manner that seemed to shout virtue and chastity.
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
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