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long-haired, a.
(Stress variable.) Also long haired, longhaired.
[f. long a.1 + haired a.]
Having long hair; spec. applied, at various times, (a) to Merovingians; (b) (freq. derog.) to æsthetes and intellectuals; (c) to cats with long fur; (d) to classical (as opposed to popular) music and musicians; (e) to beatniks and hippies. Sometimes without reference to the actual length of the hair: with or of intellectual or æsthetic pretensions. Spec. long-haired chum (see quot. 1890).
1552Huloet, Longe heared, acrocomus. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxx. III. 150 A military council was assembled of the long-haired chiefs of the Gothic nation. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xvii. 92 The..long-haired children of the north. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. I. ii. xix. 340 Romanticism..was fermenting still..in certain long-haired German artists at Rome. 1881W. S. Gilbert Patience i. 11 The peripatetics Of long haired aesthetics Are very much more to their taste. 1889H. Weir Our Cats 16 Long-haired cats..are very diversified, both in form, colour, and the quality of the hair. 1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang II. 27/2 Long-haired chum (tailors), a young woman, a young lady friend. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. xiii. 769 After a year with long-haired students I want a change. 1915J. E. Patterson Epistles from Deep Seas 262 Goin' to have a ‘long⁓haired chum’, are we. 1917‘Taffrail’ Off Shore 92 Some sort of a friendship, platonic or otherwise, with a ‘long⁓haired’ pal. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt xiv. 184 The long⁓haired gentry who call themselves ‘liberals’..and ‘intelligentsia’... Irresponsible teachers and professors constitute the worst of this whole gang. 1935Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 71/3 Straight or commercial musicians are often derisively called salon-men or long-haired boys. 1943G. W. Willis Tangleweed xii. 174 It ain't a song. It's a composition. Long-haired. 1955J. Cannan Long Shadows iii. 33 The long-haired fraternity hold the art of the camera in contempt—it rivals their daubs. 1959C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 157 Archeology, and long⁓haired music, and all those sorts of thing. 1959Times 22 Nov. 5/6 Since the result of the general election..some of the long-haired boys in our movement have been holding inquiries and assessing blame for our defeat on everyone but themselves. 1962J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (title) The long-haired kings. 1963Listener 7 Feb. 264/2 It [sc. jazz] has begun an unwise flirtation with ‘long-haired music’. 1965M. Morse Unattached i. 59 Howard..found the atmosphere so sombre, long-haired and tedious that he quickly left. 1972Ing & Pond Champion Cats of World 73 A definite breeding programme has begun in an endeavour to popularize once more the original long⁓haired cats. 1975J. Symons Three Pipe Problem ii. 15 Sir Pountney was..opposed..to long-haired students, and to spineless intellectuals. |