fair-haired
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See also: fairhaired
English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]fair-haired (comparative more fair-haired or fairer-haired, superlative most fair-haired or fairest-haired)
- Having fair hair.
- Synonym: blond
- 1783, William Blake, “To the Evening Star”, in W. H. Stevenson, editor, Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, published 2007, page 6:
- Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, / Now, while the sun rests on the mountains, light / Thy bright torch of love!
- Given special treatment as a favorite.
- Synonym: blue-eyed
- 1997, Sandra Scarry, John Scarry, The Writer’s Workplace: Paragraphs to Essays; Building College Writing Skills, Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, →ISBN, page 531:
- Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal.
Derived terms
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[edit]blond — see blond