fair-haired

[ fair-haird ]

/ ˈfɛərˌhɛərd /

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adjective

having light-colored hair.

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Idioms about fair-haired

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.

Origin of fair-haired

First recorded in 1620–30; fair¹ + hair + -ed³

Words nearby fair-haired

fairfaced, Fairfax, Fairfield, fair game, fairground, fair-haired, fair-haired boy, Fairhaven, fairily, fairing, fairish

How to use fair-haired in a sentence

The fair-haired Chris Matthews was in a scary striped number in baby blue and pink.
Forget the Electoral College—Who Won the Battle of the Neckties?|Blake Gopnik|November 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He was trying to make himself appear the fair-haired boy in front of Sergeant McGinty.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The fair-haired, tall, and very graceful girl at the other end of the wire acknowledged that it was.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle|Laura Lee Hope
Grace was the Gibson type, tall and slender and fair-haired and very pretty, with a decided liking for looking in mirrors.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle|Laura Lee Hope

Often his boyish heart went out lovingly to his father and mother and fair-haired sister.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
He cast an indifferent glance at her, then began again to talk in a tender tone to the fair-haired lady, who smiled disdainfully.
Laboulaye's Fairy Book|Various