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auburn
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auburn as in:  auburn hair

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  • She had a sharp nose, beady, suspicious eyes, and a wild fountain of curly auburn hair.  (source)
  • They didn't see another person until they reached the entrance hall, when a tall wizard with long, sweeping auburn hair and a beard called to Riddle from the marble staircase.  (source)
  • She laughed as she talked to someone, brushing back her long, auburn hair with a sweep of one hand.  (source)
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  • She had auburn hair, a curvy figure, a buoyant disposition, a quick mind, and a family cat named Chopper.  (source)
    auburn = reddish-brown
  • A tall woman in her mid-twenties with arched eyebrows and auburn hair, she was indisputably striking.  (source)
  • She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish.  (source)
  • Ah, yes, long auburn hair, pleated skirt...  (source)
  • Auburn hair fell in silken ringlets to her waist and her unblemished ivory skin shimmered like mother-of-pearl in the sunshine.  (source)
  • I vividly remembered the flat black color of his eyes the last time he'd glared at me — the color was striking against the background of his pale skin and his auburn hair.  (source)
  • Corinne had soft white skin and a tumbleweed of auburn hair.  (source)
  • Hilly gives him an auburn-lipsticked smile.  (source)
  • He sees her deep red lipstick and her plump, soft cheeks and the wave of her auburn hair.  (source)
  • Bees are silver; pigeons are ginger and auburn and occasionally golden.  (source)
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common meaning

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  • The other boys attended the industrial school and received the best secondary education to be had in the state; one of them eventually worked his way through engineering school at Auburn.  (source)
    Auburn = name of a school
  • He'd found it there when George had said Charlie could wear an Auburn University T-shirt someone had given him.  (source)
    Auburn = a proper noun
  • I was really looking forward to the game in Auburn.  (source)
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  • Equipment was then on its way from Lewis-ton, Auburn, Lisbon, and Brunswick, but nothing arrived until one o'clock.  (source)
    Auburn = a proper noun
  • I like the area just north of there in the Sierra foothills, so I begin looking at houses in Auburn, a gold-rush town with a rustic, old-fashioned downtown.  (source)
  • The joke was that Auburn had only three plays: Bo left, Bo right, and Bo up the middle.  (source)
  • At dawn a taxi is called to ferry them through deserted Cambridge streets, up Massachusetts Avenue and past Harvard Yard, to Mount Auburn Hospital.  (source)
  • In Auburn, the Loveliest Village on the Plain, I watched Bo Jackson run over pretty much everybody.  (source)
  • The district attorney ordered them to Auburn for questioning.  (source)
  • The trip was without incident until we changed buses at Auburn.  (source)
  • Stutz was second team All-American from Auburn last year and I need not tell you who Strohmyer is, I'm sure.  (source)
  • I was reading the News and Courier on the Thursday morning before our first basketball game with Auburn.  (source)
  • Him and me was both born in Auburn.  (source)
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