Flax in Culture
- French impressionistic composer Claude Debussy's prelude N.8 Book 1 for Piano, "La fille aux cheveux de lin" (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair), uses the color flax in its title.
- The main character in the Spice & Wolf Japanese novel, Horo, has been described as having flax-colored hair.
- In the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the girl Ermengarde St. John is described as having flaxen hair.
- Zossimov, a character from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, is described as having "straight flaxen hair."
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