Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having black head hair; -- of people.

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  • adjective having hair of a dark color

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Examples

  • Now it's the 81-year-old despot, still black-haired, going on 85 and how many face lifts?

    Martin T. Sosnoff: Trade in Your Bonds for Equities Martin T. Sosnoff 2011

  • A black-haired woman had paused, in the middle of the market, to watch Cressy as she passed.

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • The tubular metal furniture in the living room was precisely arranged, and on a glass coffee table was a faded picture of him and a small, black-haired boy in navy shorts and rubber flip-flops.

    The Landscape of Pleasure 2010

  • It is followed by a vision of "an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic".

    William James, part 1: A religious man for our times Mark Vernon 2010

  • Marianne is black-haired one who is an expert in handling all kinds of firearms.

    Ryoko’s Case File « Undercover 2009

  • He said that he used the word "negro" at this point in the way that he did when he was growing up in Uruguay, that is as a friendly form of address to people seen as black or brown-skinned or even just black-haired.

    The full FA report from the Luis Suárez Patrice Evra racism case 2012

  • It collapsed upon the black-haired heads of 10000 Chinese.

    Around the World brian warfield 2011

  • Millions of bottle caps poured into boxes to lift and switch lift and switch at the end of the line and there was a woman, a black-haired woman who told me it would be nice to be a writer, to rise above it all and not really be here.

    Childhood Factories Matt Dennison 2012

  • A black-haired woman sat on the hood of the pickup, biting her nails, or perhaps crying.

    Empty Windows, Empty Rooms Peter Kispert 2011

  • This savage, black-haired barbarian is named "Kronak".

    Archive 2009-01-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

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