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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:

1. with long hairplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LONG-HAIRED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

With long hair

Context example:

long-haired hippies

Similar:

haired; hairy; hirsute (having or covered with hair)


 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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