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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shoulder-length
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shoulder-length/medium-length
▪ He had shoulder-length reddish hair.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
▪ Models sported immaculate centre-parted shoulder-length hair and the beginnings of goatee beards.
▪ One fellow with a high forehead and Iank shoulder-length hair sang some poems, accompanying himself on the guitar.
▪ Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face, though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek.
▪ Mark Reynolds was in his late twenties, tall and very thin, with shoulder-length hair held under a knitted skullcap.
▪ Q I have shoulder-length hair which is greasy at the roots, yet the ends are brittle and dry.
▪ Caroline was delighted and set to work transforming her straight, shoulder-length hair into a glamorous new look.
▪ He was a friendly, freckled young man of eighteen, with shoulder-length hair.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shoulder-length/knee-length etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Elaine, his wife, was much taller than him, with shoulder-length blonde hair and long legs carrying a well-rounded body.
▪ Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face, though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek.
▪ Mark Reynolds was in his late twenties, tall and very thin, with shoulder-length hair held under a knitted skullcap.
▪ Models sported immaculate centre-parted shoulder-length hair and the beginnings of goatee beards.
▪ My hair is now shoulder-length and will have to stay that way.
▪ One fellow with a high forehead and Iank shoulder-length hair sang some poems, accompanying himself on the guitar.
▪ Q I have shoulder-length hair which is greasy at the roots, yet the ends are brittle and dry.
Wiktionary
shoulder-length

a. (context of hair, clothing, jewelry, or similar English) Reaching the shoulders.

Usage examples of "shoulder-length".

She was an elf, with shoulder-length braided hair the color of pure gold and a round face dominated by the bluest eyes Kestrel had ever seen.

He himself was the height of fashion, as always, from his shocking pink cutaway frock coat to his fluorescent face and shoulder-length metallicized hair of burning bronze.

The woman stood beside her, the picture of upscale suburbia in a knit ensemble of hunter and rust, accessorized in brass, her deep red hair cut in a smooth shoulder-length bob.

Old Bill Cody had started to grow his hair shoulder-length and wear fringed white buckskins like some of those sissy boys who stayed in camp with the women.

She wore leather hip boots with long, sharp heels, shoulder-length leather gloves, a black waist cincher, and nothing else.

Its rider, a terrifying figure with shoulder-length braids, a long mustache woven with rows of fingerbones, and a sleeveless fur jerkin, shouted at her in his clacking heathen language and kicked his horse toward her.

Squatting beside him was a boy of fourteen or fifteen, with a swarthy monkeylike face framed by tangles of shoulder-length dark hair.

His sandy-brown hair was barbered in a timelessly moderate length and style that would be unremarkable in an age of brush cuts or in an era of shoulder-length locks.

She was looking bodaciously gorgeous as usual, with that shoulder-length mess of sun-colored curls, freckled nose, and flinty gaze.

Slightly cross-eyed, with shoulder-length white hair the texture of candyfloss, he wore a cap whose tassel dangled in front of his nose and robes of an eye-watering shade of egg-yolk yellow.

When he meets Pitt at the Federal Headquarters Building, he is described as a thin older man with shoulder-length hair.

Her single attractive feature was her shoulder-length dark hair, which despite the poverty of her diet had a sheen.

It pictured a girl with tousled, wet shoulder-length blond hair in a green-and-white polka-dot bikini top and a pair of Janelle jeans that were cut off so short that they looked almost like bikini bottoms.

Her shoulder-length blonde hair had been swept up into a ponytail held in place by a blue kerchief, and she wore a cotton workshirt and a pair of jeans, the knees of which still had rich, brown soil caked on them.

A young man with shoulder-length hair and a striped apron stood behind the counter eating a carob bar.