Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having black head hair; -- of people.
 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having hair of a dark color
 
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Examples
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Now it's the 81-year-old despot, still black-haired, going on 85 and how many face lifts?
Martin T. Sosnoff: Trade in Your Bonds for Equities Martin T. Sosnoff 2011
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A black-haired woman had paused, in the middle of the market, to watch Cressy as she passed.
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The tubular metal furniture in the living room was precisely arranged, and on a glass coffee table was a faded picture of him and a small, black-haired boy in navy shorts and rubber flip-flops.
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It is followed by a vision of "an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic".
William James, part 1: A religious man for our times Mark Vernon 2010
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Marianne is black-haired one who is an expert in handling all kinds of firearms.
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He said that he used the word "negro" at this point in the way that he did when he was growing up in Uruguay, that is as a friendly form of address to people seen as black or brown-skinned or even just black-haired.
The full FA report from the Luis Suárez Patrice Evra racism case 2012
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It collapsed upon the black-haired heads of 10000 Chinese.
Around the World brian warfield 2011
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Millions of bottle caps poured into boxes to lift and switch lift and switch at the end of the line and there was a woman, a black-haired woman who told me it would be nice to be a writer, to rise above it all and not really be here.
Childhood Factories Matt Dennison 2012
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A black-haired woman sat on the hood of the pickup, biting her nails, or perhaps crying.
Empty Windows, Empty Rooms Peter Kispert 2011
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This savage, black-haired barbarian is named "Kronak".
Archive 2009-01-01 Reis O'Brien 2009
 
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