Made of flax fiber, or having a pale golden-yellow color like flax fiber.
From Old English fleaxen, literally 'made of flax.' The -en suffix indicates material composition, common in Old English (like 'wooden' or 'woolen').
Flaxen hair became the gold standard of beauty in Northern European art because genuine flax-colored hair was associated with the wealthy merchants and noble families controlling the lucrative textile trade.
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