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fair-haired, a.
a. Having fair or light-coloured hair.
1626Massinger Rom. Actor ii. i, Fair-haired Calliope. 1725Pope Odyss. vi. 145 The fair-hair'd Dryads of the shady wood. 1814Scott Wav. xx, The flash of the gun cost me a fair-haired son. 1892Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 6 The Celts were fair-haired.
†b. In the name of a plant (see quot).
1597Gerard Herbal (1598) 102 The faire haired Iacint.
c. fig. Darling, favourite. (Cf. white a. 9, white boy.)
1909Sat. Even. Post 24 Apr. 26/2 The old crowd of Fair-haired Correspondent Boys who hung to the ear of President Roosevelt with viselike grip dissolved. 1918J. W. Gerard Face to face with Kaiserism vii. 76 The [German] Government published a certificate in the Official Gazette to the effect that I was their fair-haired boy, etc. 1949Time 14 Mar. 30/1 Vishinsky was Stalin's newest fair-haired boy. |