FAIR-HAIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fair-haired mean? 

• FAIR-HAIRED (adjective)
  The adjective FAIR-HAIRED has 1 sense:

1. favorite

  Familiarity information: FAIR-HAIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIR-HAIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Favorite

Synonyms:

blue-eyed; fair-haired; white-haired

Context example:

the fair-haired boy of the literary set

Similar:

loved (held dear)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

We could not see the face, for it was bent down over what we saw to be a fair-haired child.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The white-skinned, fair-haired savages who created that terrible pantheon were of the same fibre as he.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With her was her daughter, a pale, fair-haired girl, whose eyes blazed defiantly at us as she told us that she was glad that her father was dead, and that she blessed the hand which had struck him down.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)