The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fair-haired \Fair"-haired`\, a.
Having fair or light-colored hair.
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favorite; considered especially talented or promising; as, the fair-haired boy of the literary set. [prenominal]
Syn: blue-eyed(prenominal), white-haired(prenominal), white-headed.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having relatively blond hair 2 Given special treatment as a favorite
WordNet
adj. favorite; "the fair-haired boy of the literary set" [syn: blue-eyed(a), fair-haired(a), white-haired(a)]
Usage examples of "fair-haired".
Rathe guessed that the youngest, a fair-haired, ruddy-skinned boy, was the missing Albe Cytel.
A tall, fair-haired woman in a jumpsuit was walking an apricot poodle, but she scarcely looked at me.
The fair-haired, brown-eyed little girl was almost as well-known in the Kursaals of Homburg and Wiesbaden as the famous gambler himself, as evening after evening they entered the great lighted salons together, and took their places amongst the motley crowd gathered round the long green tables.
The small, fair-haired figure bundled up in an afghan poshteen was laughing with one of her attendant brigands.
The tall, fair-haired naval Captain commanded the Pucelle, the ship on which Sharpe had served at Trafalgar and he had greeted Sharpe with obviovis delight.
The small, fair-haired man, whose quiet ways disguised the fiercest swordsman in the clan, looked from Drey to Raif as he spoke.
No fair-haired Apollo could begin to compare with this large, robustly handsome man.
So all Harry Tasker had to do was go to the studio, ask a question or two, tell a plausible story, and order a print of the photograph taken of the young lady who had come in that morning with a fair-haired man, Miss Gaynor and Mr.
A man, a blue-eyed, fair-haired Mexican, dressed in a silver embroidered charro suit suddenly leaped on tathe dais to join her as the music changed to a fandango.
Fortunio came, fair-haired and fresh-complexioned as a babe, his supple, not ungraceful figure tawdrily clad in showy clothes of poor material the worse for hard usage and spilt wine.
For temperament, he much preferred the petite, fair-haired Flore to the voluptuous Layla, whose ebony tresses were as dark as his own.
At my right, beyond giant Thor and his wife, sat three other sons of Odin Vidar, Vali and Hermod, tall and fair-haired, stalwart men all.
The big, fair-haired foot baller smiled across at Sarah apologetically, then shrugged his wide shoulders.
Quintal, accompanied by a fair-haired lad named Ellison, and Millward, one of the three for whom Quintal had gone below--all in a state of suppressed excitement.
Presently they began to follow her, with a compressed murmur of admiration, until, before she was halfway across the plaza, the sentries beside the gateway of the Presidio were astonished at the vision of a fair-haired and triumphant Pallas, who appeared to be leading the entire population of Todos Santos to victorious attack.