Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having blond hair.
- adjective Favorite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having fair or light-colored hair.
- adjective prenominal, informal favorite; considered especially talented or promising.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having relatively
blond hair - adjective Given special treatment as a
favorite
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective favorite
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Examples
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As for Lloyd, he'll miss playing the fair-haired foe of the Baratheons.
Game of Thrones Postmortem: Harry Lloyd on Viserys' Golden Crown 2011
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'Non Angli, sed angeli' is what the future Pope Gregory the Great is supposed to have said at the sight of fair-haired Anglo-Saxon boys being sold as slaves in Rome: tradition has it that he was so struck by this encounter that he set about the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity (Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, II,1).
The Christian Artist 2009
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The men in the boats, half naked, huge-muscled and fair-haired, wore winged helmets.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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Dottie, who lived in the clouds of dandelion dust and bumblebees that inhabited her fair-haired head, was stolen from them by the Red Fox River when she was eight years old.
Escape MaryAnne Kolton 2011
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If the saturnine Hicks was Murdoch's "dark angel" at university, her other major correspondent in these years, Frank Thompson, was very much her Oxonian fair-haired boy, whose death while fighting behind enemy lines in the Balkans in 1944 cast him retrospectively not only as her Knight Errant but as the love of her life.
The Good Apprentice Martin Rubin 2011
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One fair-haired invader lay across the gunwale of a boat, the manner of his death told by the arrow that transfixed his breast.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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Western art has frequently stumbled over the contradiction between the ascetic figure of Jesus of Nazareth and the iconography of Christ inspired by the heroic, Hellenistic ideal: Christ as beautiful, tall and broad-shouldered, God's wide receiver; blue-eyed, fair-haired, a straight aquiline nose, Christ as European prince.
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No one had ever considered the possibility that this fair-haired, blue-eyed man might have represented himself as a person of African American descent.
A Conversation with Martha Sandweiss about Passing Strange 2010
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I'm tempted to call Gerald Clayton the fair-haired wonderboy of the piano for the new decade, except that his medusa-like dreadlocks are anything but "fair."
Friends, Sisters, Countrymen Will Friedwald 2011
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More Wimbledon News at wsj.com/wimbledon "It's not until you feel the power of the ball off the strings that you really appreciate how hard he hits it," Hoyt, the fair-haired Welsh teenager, said.
Fit Nadal Raring to Go Neil Harman 2011
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