Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having red hair.
- adjective Having a red head.
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- adjective Having
red hair .
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- adjective having red hair and usually fair skin
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Examples
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"Are you ready?" calls the redheaded lady who is his consort, as well as the head of the newly ascendant trading house - Ryalor House.
Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000
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Most is best known for playing the redheaded jokester Ralph Malph on Happy Days.
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My eyes had barely drifted shut when I heard my redheaded toddler holler from the stairway.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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Apparently, the naturally blonde Turner is not immediately recognizable as the redheaded Sansa.
Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner: Sansa Has Been Manipulated by Joffrey 2011
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My eyes had barely drifted shut when I heard my redheaded toddler holler from the stairway.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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I hadn't recalled Pete's red ... and now that you mention it, I agree that the recessive gene on both sides would make it possible for a PW child of Rose and The-Hand-Plus-Donna's-Body (Consciousness inhabiting it TBD later) to turn up redheaded, too.
New Doctor/Rose Ficlet: STRAWBERRIES rabid1st 2009
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Conan O'Brien is currently facing down one of the deadliest demons he's ever crossed: NBC, whose decision to move Jay Leno back into the coveted 11: 35 PM slot has left the redheaded late night personality in an awkward predicament.
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Mahaffey has received an Emmy nomination for her supporting role as Eve on Northern Exposure and has a history of playing seemingly normal but rather intense read: crazy redheaded ladies, such as the Orson-loving Alma Hodge on Desperate Housewives.
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Those redheaded dudes will burst into flames in Rio.
U.S. vs. Chile match diary and player ratings Jeff Maurer 2011
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He's the first friend who ever told me he loved me as a human being and that he would be destroyed by my death as if I were his own brother and he remains to this day the only person I can accurately visualize sitting in my kindergarten classroom that fat redheaded kid with freckles and the endlessly runny nose.
Savage, Minnesota Ryan Amfahr Longhorn 2011
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