LIGHT-HAIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does light-haired mean? 

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

1. being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIGHT-HAIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes

Synonyms:

blond; blonde; light-haired

Context example:

a house full of light-haired children

Similar:

ash-blonde; platinum-blonde; towheaded (of hair color; whitish)

fair; fairish ((used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored)

flaxen; sandy (of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown)

nordic (resembling peoples of Scandinavia)

redheaded (having red hair and usually fair skin)

Attribute:

complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)

 Context examples 

He was a little light-haired gentleman, with undeniable boots, and the stiffest of white cravats and shirt-collars.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For this reason, though Mr. Chillip often asked me to go and see him (he was a widower, having, some years before that, lost a little small light-haired wife, whom I can just remember connecting in my own thoughts with a pale tortoise-shell cat), it was but seldom that I enjoyed the happiness of passing an afternoon in his closet of a surgery; reading some book that was new to me, with the smell of the whole Pharmacopoeia coming up my nose, or pounding something in a mortar under his mild directions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)