fair-haired

adjective

having light-colored hair.

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.

Origin:
1620–30; fair¹ + hair + -ed³

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fair-haired
adjective
favorite; "the fair-haired boy of the literary set" [syn: blue-eyed]

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