yellow-haired, a.
(-hɛəd: stress variable)
Having yellow (flaxen, auburn, or golden) hair. Also fig.
| 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Blond, yellow haired. 1690 Lond. Gaz. No. 2569/4 Edmond Barber, aged about 30, Yellow Hair'd. 1721 Ramsay Content 208 A tall yellow-hair'd young pensive swain. 1812 Byron Ch. Har. ii. lxxii, Let the yellow-hair'd Giaours view his horsetail with dread. 1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 196 The Britons are taller than the Gauls, and less yellow-haired. 1887 Hall Caine Son of Hagar i. ii, The yellow-haired elderly gentleman with the perpetual smile. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 155 Scyllas and yellow-haired hellebore, jonquils, dim anemones. |