auburn

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   reddish-brown in color, especially when describing hair

   Her auburn hair looked coppery in the afternoon sun.

2. 2
   noun

   a moderate reddish-brown color

   The leaves deepened from gold to auburn as autumn advanced.

From Middle English auburne and related forms, originally meaning "yellowish-white" or "flaxen," from Old French alborne and Medieval Latin alburnus, "whitish," from Latin albus, "white." Influence from brown-colored forms shifted the English word toward its modern reddish-brown sense.

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