(a.) Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Boris must have been tearing out those flaxen locks, desperate for Guppy to stop "defending" him – he'd doubtless try to strangle him with the old school tie if he could.
(2) For the study 12 varieties of flaxen thread, of surgical thickness "0", were used, including 3 groups of raw thread of various twists, 3 groups of cleaned thread, 2 groups of mercerized thread, 4 groups of threads covered with specially prepared preparations on the basis od silicon polymers and polyurethanes.
(3) Edward Fox is something of a Flemingesque dreamboat, with his flaxen locks, his aristocratic lockjaw and his subaltern's bearing (I imagine Fox as Freddie Forsyth's idealised version of himself ).