fair-haired

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adjective
  1. having light-colored hair.

Idioms about fair-haired

  1. 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

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

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How to use fair-haired in a sentence

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