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auburn

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 6904 Housing Units (2000): 2322 Land area (2000): 5.338479 sq. miles (13.826596 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.004071 sq. miles (0.010545 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.342550 sq. miles (13.837141 sq. km) FIPS code: 04140 Located within: ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Auburn , also known as Auburn Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Brandy Station , Culpeper County, Virginia . It was built about 1855-1856, and is a three-story, three bay by three bay frame dwelling, built in the Greek Revival style. It features ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French auborne , from Medieval Latin alburnus "off-white, whitish," from Latin albus "white" (see alb ). It came to English meaning "yellowish-white, flaxen," but shifted 16c. to "reddish-brown" under influence of Middle English brun ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of a reddish-brown colour. n. A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.

Usage examples of auburn.

Gian nodded, the motion sent that front flipped curl into an adorable jiggle off the sides of his thick auburn brows.

The drab wash of the rainy Auburn twilight leaked through the partially polarized window, giving the one-room doss a dull, tired illumination that perfectly suited my mood.

Mentally comparing the signs of the good life with my own doss in Auburn and with my final destination this evening, I let out a sigh.

My place in Auburn is small, but my Redmond doss would fit in it with enough room left over for a pool table and clearance to make your shots.

Lawrence looked straight down, he could see nothing but dunes of slick auburn mud, their crests dusted white.

She wore the blue glacé, in which she looked so charming, and twisted some jeweled stars in her bright auburn hair.

What should we think if we could foresee that, a thousand years hence, when the present doctrines and customs of France and America are forgotten, some antiquary, seeking the reason why the mourners in Pere la Chaise and Mount Auburn laid clusters of flowers on the graves of their lamented ones, should deliberately conclude that it was believed the souls remained in the bodies in the tomb and enjoyed the perfume of the flowers?

I caught her seated before a toilet-glass, while the widow dressed the most beautiful auburn hair I had ever seen.

As though to compensate, her double helices granted Rachel thick, auburn hair, and the most beautiful skin I have ever seen.

A pale, petite woman with long auburn hair, she wore the drab blue one-piece uniform with the flag of Izar emblazoned over the heart that indicated an Izarian peace officer.

Dorothy was a rather little woman, with lightish auburn hair, a large and somewhat heavy forehead, fine gray eyes, small well-fashioned features, a fair complexion on a thin skin, and a mouth that would have been better in shape if it had not so often been informed of trouble.

One was a consumer advocate for CBS television, a former runner-up to Miss North Carolina in the Miss America contest, thirty years old, rather puckishly committed to a variation on the original Ann-Margret coiffure which, given all proper due, admirably suited her auburn hair, opinionated, contentious beyond belief, and directly responsible for a Xerox price rollback that had cost the firm nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

Miss Ruddick hurried into the foyer, her bonnet blown back from her auburn hair, and a stack of books and papers clutched to her heaving chest.

Until her bare feet were Satem Falls 209 covered with hanks of her hair, a pit of auburn snakes.

The others have systems also, from Auburn Risque to Simp, the only son of the richest widow in Louisiana, who disbursed of old in Paris ten thousand dollars annually.