hairen
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English heeren, from Old English hǣren (“made of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *hārīn, equivalent to hair + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots hairen, hairn, herin (“made of hair”), German hären (“made of hair”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hairen (comparative more hairen, superlative most hairen)
- (obsolete, now chiefly dialectal) Consisting or made of hair
- 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
- His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet.
References
[edit]- “hairen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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