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fair-haired

[ fair-haird ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having light-colored hair.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fair-haired¹

First recorded in 1620–30; fair ¹ + hair + -ed ³

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

fair-haired boy, Informal. a person, especially a young one, treated as a favorite or considered especially promising by a superior or the members of a group:
He's the fair-haired boy of the literary set.

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“My agent said, ‘It’s a shame that you’re not conservative, because if you were, there are many more opportunities for women that look like you,” she says — i.e., white, fair-haired and conventionally attractive.

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The same year she married a “fair-haired, blue-eyed boy with the cheekiest grin I’d ever seen”.

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The 2000 summary document asks if Z3 was the “blonde offender”, a reference to an unidentified fair-haired lead attacker described by eyewitnesses to the murder.

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The other was Lance Kenton, 20, lean and fair-haired, his posture as straight as a soldier’s.

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The BBC investigation into Matthew White revealed that independent witnesses said he admitted being present during the attack on Stephen, and that in 1993 White looked like the unidentified fair-haired lead attacker described by eyewitnesses.

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