red-haired, a.
[See red a. 1 e.]
Having red or reddish hair. (Chiefly of persons.)
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxii. 16 He wes ane lusty reid haird [v.r. rid-harit] lowry. 1530 Palsgr. 322/1 Reed heared, roux, rouse. 1607 Chapman Bussy d'Ambois iii. i, Worse than the poison of a red-hair'd man. 1715 Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) V. 129 The famous D{supr} Hammond was a red-hair'd Man. 1777 Lightfoot Flora Scot. II. 1002 Red-haired Byssus. 1815 Scott Guy M. xviii, Is my future friend red-haired? 1889 I. Taylor Orig. Aryans ii. 110 The tall, red-haired brachycephalic Irishman and Scot. |
| absol. 1726 Swift Gulliver iv. viii, It is observed, that the Red-haired of both Sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest. |
| transf. a 1704 T. Brown Wks. (1720) III. 187 The red-hair'd Chariotteer of the Day, meaning the Sun. 1813 W. S. Walker Gustavus Vasa iii. 101 But see! the red-haired sun to ocean bends. |