Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One dedicated to the arts and especially to classical music.
- noun One whose taste in the arts is considered to be overrefined.
- noun A person with long hair, especially a hippie.
- noun A domestic cat with a long-haired coat, such as a Persian cat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as
bohemian , non-conventional or ahippie . - noun A person with a deep interest in the classical arts, especially music.
- noun A person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts.
- adjective derogatory, music Concerning or characteristic of
classical music.
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Examples
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"longhair" - i.e. anything more than half-an-inch - and accidentally stumbled into the Long Branch Saloon instead of the adjacent Wrangler you were in big trouble, in actuality seldom did anything amiss occur, even when Sam Peckinpah was letting off volleys of pistol shots into the ceiling of his permanent room at the Baxter Hotel.
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"longhair" - i.e. anything more than half-an-inch - and accidentally stumbled into the Long Branch Saloon instead of the adjacent Wrangler you were in big trouble, in actuality seldom did anything amiss occur, even when Sam Peckinpah was letting off volleys of pistol shots into the ceiling of his permanent room at the Baxter Hotel.
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"longhair" - i.e. anything more than half-an-inch - and accidentally stumbled into the Long Branch Saloon instead of the adjacent Wrangler you were in big trouble, in actuality seldom did anything amiss occur, even when Sam Peckinpah was letting off volleys of pistol shots into the ceiling of his permanent room at the Baxter Hotel.
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It's a long way from my days in rock 'n roll in the 1970s when "longhair" music did not mean classical.
Greg Mitchell: For Thanksgiving: Beethoven's Wish That 'All Become Brothers' Greg Mitchell 2010
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It's a long way from my days in rock 'n roll in the 1970s when "longhair" music did not mean classical.
Greg Mitchell: For Thanksgiving: Beethoven's Wish That 'All Become Brothers' Greg Mitchell 2010
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It's a long way from my days in rock 'n roll in the 1970s when "longhair" music did not mean classical.
Greg Mitchell: For Thanksgiving: Beethoven's Wish That 'All Become Brothers' Greg Mitchell 2010
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It's a long way from my days in rock 'n roll in the 1970s when "longhair" music did not mean classical.
Greg Mitchell: For Thanksgiving: Beethoven's Wish That 'All Become Brothers' Greg Mitchell 2010
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It's a long way from my days in rock 'n roll in the 1970s when "longhair" music did not mean classical.
Greg Mitchell: For Thanksgiving: Beethoven's Wish That 'All Become Brothers' Greg Mitchell 2010
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It's a long way from my days in rock 'n roll in the 1970s when "longhair" music did not mean classical.
Greg Mitchell: For Thanksgiving: Beethoven's Wish That 'All Become Brothers' Greg Mitchell 2010
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It's a long way from my days in rock 'n roll in the 1970s when "longhair" music did not mean classical.
Greg Mitchell: For Thanksgiving: Beethoven's Wish That 'All Become Brothers' Greg Mitchell 2010
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