tow-coloured
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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 Cholmondeley, Mary
Straighty stood in the centre of the kitchen, sucking three fingers and looking shyly at me from beneath her tousled tow-coloured hair.
From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney
The night air ruffled a shock of tow-coloured hair.
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
Their tousled, tow-coloured little heads peep round the doorway.
From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney
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
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