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fair-haired

[fair-haird]
–adjective
1. having light-colored hair.
2. fair-haired boy, Informal. a person, esp. 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; fair 1 + hair + -ed 3
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fair-haired   (fâr'hârd')
adj.  
  1. Having blond hair: a fair-haired toddler.

  2. Favorite: "master linguist, Yale dropout and fair-haired boy of the OSS" (Edward Klein).

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