Definition of "auburn"

auburn

/ˈɔ.bɚn/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural auburns
1. A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.
adjective
comparative more auburn, superlative most auburn
1. Of a reddish-brown colour.
  Quotations
  All were watching somebody in the garden with deep interest, their three faces close together: a jovial and round one, a pale one with dark hair, and a fair one whose tresses were auburn. “Don’t push! You can see as well as I,” said Retty, the auburn-haired and youngest girl, without removing her eyes from the window.
  1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXI, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […]
  […] ; nor was Miss Wilkinson the ideal: he had often pictured to himself the great violet eyes and the alabaster skin of some lovely girl, and he had thought of himself burying his face in the rippling masses of her auburn hair.
  1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company
  I never thought I'd meet a girl like you / Meet a girl like you / With auburn hair and tawny eyes
  1982, “I Ran (So Far Away)”, performed by A Flock of Seagulls