fair-haired

See also: fairhaired

English

Alternative forms

• fairhaired

Adjective

fair-haired (comparative more fair-haired or fairer-haired, superlative most fair-haired or fairest-haired)

1. 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!

   • 2014, Tom Holt, The Outsorcerer’s Apprentice: A Novel of Overlords, Underlings and Inhuman Resources, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 27:

     Tom the woodcutter was even taller, broader and fairer-haired than John the woodcutter, though there wasn’t all that much between them in the gormlessness stakes.

2. 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

• fair-haired boy

Translations

blond — see blond