What is "cornsilk"

Usage examples of "cornsilk".

Sir, she is the loveliest of women, with hair of cornsilk yellow lying smooth upon a cheek of damask blush that would put shame to the angels.

Mounting him, you will find your adventure, and, at the end of it, your Cressilda of the cornsilk hair.

Though heavier and squarely masculine, his face bore a startling similarity to those of the two tall, handsome women who stood before him, their hair but slightly darker than his bushy cornsilk eyebrows.

The words were shaped soundlessly and she stifled her sobs, that she might not waken her bloated captor to wreak fresh horrors upon her, but the silent tears coursed from her eyes to trickle amongst the strands of her cornsilk hair.

Hair the color of wheat in sunlight, like cornsilk under his hand when he crashed her to him.

So pale in the greenish light, hair like cornsilk, too, but plastered now with rain and blood.

Slender and pale, her cornsilk hair done up into a coiffure as convulsed as the bloom of an orchid.

Eriu had been cleared by brown-backed men and women wielding scythes and singing songs of the God Lugh, their coppery hair bleached as blond as cornsilk by the long summer, the fields of Colorado and the plains were harvested by machine.