Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective being or having light colored skin and hair. Contrasted to
brunet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes
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Examples
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Or: the book was a small-boned light-haired woman with big brown eyes and a startled expression.
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An hour after you have taken the peyote, the light-haired man will appear to be asleep.
How to Meet and Dance with Your Death (Como encuentrar y bailar con su muerte): A Cure for Suicide Larissa Shmailo 2011
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As the Rolls approached, I could make out a good-looking, light-haired man driving.
Family Storms 2011
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One nurse, tiny, light-haired, who had a charming, slight overlap of one front tooth over another, re-approached.
What Is Life? vic fortezza 2011
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One nurse, tiny, light-haired, who had a charming, slight overlap of one front tooth over another, re-approached.
What Is Life? vic fortezza 2011
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One nurse, tiny, light-haired, who had a charming, slight overlap of one front tooth over another, re-approached.
What Is Life? vic fortezza 2011
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Then the new pope came out—burly, light-haired, broad cheekbones.
Make Him a Saint Peggy Noonan 2011
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As the Rolls approached, I could make out a good-looking, light-haired man driving.
Family Storms 2011
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And he certainly wasn't a blue eyed, light-haired, fair skined guy in a robe like all the "wingnuts" like like to drool over.
Evangelical plans lawsuit over new Obama outreach effort 2008
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Two light-haired boys, similar enough to be twins, stuck their heads out of a stationary Chrysler and giggled at the chaos of the natives and the police running around in all directions.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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