Crossword clues for towhead
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow. 2 An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation.
Wikipedia
towhead may refer to:
- A person with light blond hair
- A river island, usually a sandbar with trees
- A novel by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
Usage examples of "towhead".
When first he laid eyes on the towheaded, blue-eyed boy, Manos lusted for him.
Out of place in his fleet garb, flanked by seafolk, Evrael was kneeling near where the towheaded woman had kneeled when she raised her crimson blade.
The Florida towheads look closer to twenty than fifteen, tanned to peeling by too many weeks in the sun and just a little edgy, rocking back on their heels in lowslung, faded cutoffs, studying the twins from underneath lashes flecked with sand.
The towheaded man nudged me forward to stand by Czerny and the rest of the board, inches away from the line demarking the limits of the prison and the beginning of the world, a dirt path leading downward among boulders to the river flashing along its course.
As the bus pulled away from the final stop, only Lioe and a trio of musicians, two towheaded young men who looked like siblings and a stocky, flat-faced woman, remained.
Children cowered at the entrance to the tent, towheaded lads and lasses wearing the garb of noble kinfolk in stark contrast to the two score or more crudely garbed slaves huddled up against the walls of the tent.
One Labor Day weekend they had motored to Southampton, where for three days in an old house belonging to her Uncle Ogden Watress, Clay drank gin and tonic (not bourbon and water), played tennis on a grass court (not clay) and lunched daily at a beach club overlooking an oval pool in which the noise of interchangeable towheaded children drowned out all talk of the stock market (not politics).
A handful of towheaded Northerners, head and shoulders above the rest.
Augustine noticed a young towheaded boy, rigid in a shredded patio chair outside a battered house.
The lot of towheads was troubles we was going to get into with quarrelsome people and all kinds of mean folks, but if we minded our business and didn't talk back and aggravate them, we would pull through and get out of the fog and into the big clear river, which was the free states, and wouldn't have no more trouble.