BLACK-HAIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black-haired mean? 

• BLACK-HAIRED (adjective)
  The adjective BLACK-HAIRED has 1 sense:

1. having hair of a dark color

  Familiarity information: BLACK-HAIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK-HAIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having hair of a dark color

Synonyms:

black-haired; brown-haired; dark-haired

Context example:

a dark-haired beauty

Similar:

brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)

 Context examples 

Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A twitch brought away the tangled red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I very soon started back from there, for the empty dog-kennel was filled up with a great dog—deep mouthed and black-haired like Him—and he was very angry at the sight of me, and sprang out to get at me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)