fair-haired
adj1
Having fair hair.
- Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, / Now, while the sun rests on the mountains, light / Thy bright torch of love!1783, William Blake, “To the Evening Star”, in W. H. Stevenson, editor, Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, published 2007, page 6:
- 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.2014, Tom Holt, The Outsorcerer’s Apprentice: A Novel of Overlords, Underlings and Inhuman Resources, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 27:
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Given special treatment as a favorite.
- 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.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:
- Derived terms
- fair-haired boy