Both Uses of
auburn
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish.
p. 18.3 *auburn = reddish-brown
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- 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.
p. 11.7 *auburn = name of a school
Definitions:
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(1)
(auburn as in: auburn hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown -- especially of hair
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
More commonly, as a proper noun (capitalized), Auburn is the name of an important university and city in Alabama, and of various cities in the USA and elsewhere in the world.