All 6 Uses of
auburn
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- It can't be denied your hair is terrible red; but I knew a girl once—went to school with her, in fact—whose hair was every mite as red as yours when she was young, but when she grew up it darkened to a real handsome auburn.
p. 71.5auburn = reddish-brown
- Oh, I could endure anything if I only thought my hair would be a handsome auburn when I grew up.
p. 71.7
- It would be so much easier to be good if one's hair was a handsome auburn, don't you think?
p. 71.7
- Do you suppose my hair will really be a handsome auburn when I grow up?
p. 72.8 *
- Do you think it could be called auburn now, Diana?
p. 216.0
- My freckles are really gone; and people are nice enough to tell me my hair is auburn now—all but Josie Pye.
p. 291.4
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.