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DARK-HAIRED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dark-haired mean?
• DARK-HAIRED (adjective)
The adjective DARK-HAIRED has 2 senses:
1. having hair of a dark color
Familiarity information: DARK-HAIRED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Covered with dark hair
Synonyms:
dark-coated; dark-haired
Similar:
Context examples
The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In he walked, a middle-sized, dark-haired, dark-eyed, black-bearded man, with a touch of the Sheeny about his nose.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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