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LONG-HAIRED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does long-haired mean?
• LONG-HAIRED (adjective)
The adjective LONG-HAIRED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: LONG-HAIRED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With long hair
Context example:
long-haired hippies
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Context examples
There are three varieties of Ibizan: smooth-haired, long-haired, and wire-haired.
(Ibizan Hound, NCI Thesaurus)
The Long Haired Chihuahua is a variety of chihuahua with a long-haired coat.
(Long Haired Chihuahua, NCI Thesaurus)
Instead, all alone, sitting upright on the rug, and gazing with gravity at the blaze, I beheld a great black and white long-haired dog, just like the Gytrash of the lane.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Both sizes have three coat varieties: the short-haired, the wired-haired, and the long-haired.
(Dachshund, NCI Thesaurus)
The Long Haired Standard Dachshund is a long-haired variety of dachshund with a height of up to 9 inches.
(Long Haired Standard Dachshund, NCI Thesaurus)
Besides the common short-haired variety there is also a long-haired type.
(Chihuahua, NCI Thesaurus)
The Long Haired Mini Dachshund is a long-haired variety of dachshund with a height up to 5 inches.
(Long Haired Mini Dachshund, NCI Thesaurus)
The domestic short-hair cat is a small carnivorous crepuscular mammal that has short fur length and is more slender and active than the domestic long-haired cat.
(Domestic Short Hair Cat, NCI Thesaurus)
The cub reporter was an artist, and it was a large brush with which he laid on the local color—wild-eyed long-haired men, neurasthenic and degenerate types of men, voices shaken with passion, clenched fists raised on high, and all projected against a background of oaths, yells, and the throaty rumbling of angry men.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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