All 5 Uses

auburn
in
Ferris Beach
(Edited)

Angela appeared at the top of a sand dune, her thick auburn hair blowing behind her.
Chpt 1

auburn = reddish-brown
my hair looked auburn in certain lights.
Chpt 6 *

auburn = colored a moderate reddish-brown
It was when I was getting into the car that I thought I saw Angela, a flash of auburn hair and a black silky dress, a man I did not recognize, a car I'd never seen.
Chpt 10

auburn = reddish-brown
I asked, conjuring my own picture, a seventeen-year-old Angela, her auburn hair swinging shoulder length; I imagined white socks and saddle shoes as she raced out onto an empty football field to meet him, tall and thin with pale green eyes, and all the while she was trying to decide how she was going to break the news to him, this accident that had happened, this accident of a child who she would have to get rid of in some way or another if he didn't marry her.
Chpt 16
She was sitting there, auburn hair parted down the middle and hanging to her shoulders as she held a drumstick in one hand and a cigarette in the other, a glass of my father's scotch in front of her.
Chpt 24

Definitions:

(1) (auburn as in: auburn hair)
colored a moderate reddish-brown -- especially of hair
(2) (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.