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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a light complexion and light hair.
  2. n. A person having a light complexion and light hair.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. anthropology Pertaining to the Xanthochroi; having fair hair and a pale complexion.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Ethnol.) Having a yellowish or fair complexion.

Etymologies

  1. From Xanthochroi. (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin Xanthōchroi, yellow-haired, fair-skinned people (a subdivision in a classification of varieties of humans by Thomas H. Huxley : Greek xantho-, xantho- + Greek ōkhroi, pl. of ōkhros, pale) + -oid. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The suggestion that xanthochroid Aryans were "bleached" by exposure during the glacial period, does not agree with Wallace's doctrine concerning the coloration of Arctic animals.”

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