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fair-haired

[ fair-haird ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

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

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.

The fair-haired Chris Matthews was in a scary striped number in baby blue and pink.

He was trying to make himself appear the fair-haired boy in front of Sergeant McGinty.

The fair-haired, tall, and very graceful girl at the other end of the wire acknowledged that it was.

Grace was the Gibson type, tall and slender and fair-haired and very pretty, with a decided liking for looking in mirrors.

Often his boyish heart went out lovingly to his father and mother and fair-haired sister.

He cast an indifferent glance at her, then began again to talk in a tender tone to the fair-haired lady, who smiled disdainfully.

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