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Light-haired   Listen
adjective
light-haired  adj.  Being or having light colored skin and hair; as, a certain light-haired girl. Contrasted to brunet. (Narrower terms: redheaded)
Synonyms: blond, blonde.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Light-haired" Quotes from Famous Books



... seeing nothing of Beauchene, went on furiously abusing a companion, with whom she had previously started a dispute. She and the other were sisters, and, as it happened, daughters of old Moineaud. Euphrasie, the younger one, she who was shouting, was a skinny creature of seventeen, light-haired, with a long, lean, pointed face, uncomely and malignant; whereas the elder, Norine, barely nineteen, was a pretty girl, a blonde like her sister, but having a milky skin, and withal plump and sturdy, showing real shoulders, arms, and ...
— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

... asking us to warm up to her," contradicted Mademoiselle Eloise, a pale, light-haired sprite, who had arrived late and was making undignified efforts to get out of her clothes by way of her head. She was Polly's understudy and next in line for the ...
— Polly of the Circus • Margaret Mayo

... o'clock the cry is heard from the southwest end of the room, "Fall in for roll-call! fall in!" to which several would impudently add, "Here he comes! here he is!" A tall, slim, stooping, beardless, light-haired phenomenon, known as "the roll-call sergeant," enters with two musketeers. We officers having formed in two ranks on the northwest side of the room, he passes down the front from left to right slowly counting. Setting down ...
— Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons - A Personal Experience, 1864-5 • Homer B. Sprague

... believe it would do well enough, since you don't mind. Zeke is going to meet this train. I'll tell the conductor to see that you get off at Bel-Air, and when you do, ask for Mr. Evringham's coachman. You'll see Zeke, a light-haired man driving a brown horse in a brougham. He'll take you home to his mother, Mrs. Forbes. She is my housekeeper. Now, do you ...
— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham

... Asia the Semites either by local variation or intermingling with other stocks; later there developed the Mediterranean race, with Negroid characteristics, and the modern Negroes. The blue-eyed, light-haired Germanic people may have arisen as a modern variation of the mixed peoples produced by the mingling of Asiatic and African elements. The last word on this development has not yet been said, and there is still much to learn and explain; but it is certainly proved ...
— The Negro • W.E.B. Du Bois

... The light-haired fellow had a different opinion on the matter; smiling kind-heartedly, he waved his hand ...
— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky



Words linked to "Light-haired" :   platinum-blonde, complexion, skin colour, towheaded, skin color, nordic, ash-blonde, sandy, redheaded, blond



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