Flaxy

Mr. FECHTER presents HAMLET as a perfect "flaxy;" partly in deference to the present popularity of the tint, and partly to show a marked contrast with his OTHELLO, which character he always makes up as a male brunette. ❋ Various (N/A)

And the body beneath, the spindly thing she carried through the world, chalk pale mostly, and speckled hands with high veins, and cropped hair that was fine and flaxy gray, and her bluesteel eyes—many a boy and girl of old saw those peepers in their dreams. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

I will take another look but I think their unstructured flaxy thing is becoming too much a kind of uniform for liberal clergy gals, and anytime that happens PeaceBang must stand against it. ❋ PeaceBang (2006)

L.L. COOL.J, RAPPER: Essential fats, flaxy (ph), things like that. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It seemed to him it was all-white, flaxy sheets of linen, or sifted snow a-falling that he saw there through a rift in the mist. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

She was walking slowly, because she saw, coming toward her, a portly lady, with hair so flaxy that no gray would show in it. ❋ William Osborn Stoddard (1880)

However, three children on the back seat, dressed in the same style, with the addition of long flaxy ringlets, made very passable ❋ Bayard Taylor (1851)

With the large ones they catch bonnetos and albicores, by putting them to a bamboo rod, twelve or fourteen feet long, with a line of the same length, which rests in a notch of a piece of wood, fixed in the stern of the canoe for that purpose, and is dragged on the surface of the sea, as she rows along, without any other bait than a tuft of flaxy stuff near the point. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

Mr. Banks faid, that if what the learned gentleman bad Mr. Bank*, faid to the Committee could not prevail upon them fo far a& to make them think the addrfefs unnece flaxy at prefent, he was fure that nothing that could fall from him could have any. erred upon them. ❋ Unknown (1784)

That’s why I baked the flaxy chickpea patties, since the binding won’t happen in the heat generated on a stovetop. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a whiter and softer skin, generally speaking, blue eyes, often of a porcelain or pale hue, paler as you approach the north, and sometimes glassy in Holland; hair of a flaxy blonde, and, with children, almost white; the ancient Romans early wondered at it, and stated that infants in Germany had the hair of old men. ❋ Unknown (1873)

Wow! What a [flaxy] [escape] from those [KGB] kill squads. ❋ S. "the ShizSTAR" Beveles (2010)

Hey is that [flaxy] [I can] hear [clapping]? ❋ Dom Cweam (2021)