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  • adjective having hair that feels rough

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Examples

  • The only good time was naptime and the rough-haired girl with one wall-eye and no other friends but me—

    Memoir Matt Dennison 2012

  • A while ago, his rough-haired Jack Russell had failed to respond to his whistle and been found inert under the wagon, bitten by an adder.

    Country diary: Dorset 2010

  • This ecoregion contains a higher number of mammals, although only the orange mouse (Mus orangiae) is restricted to the ecoregion, and the rough-haired golden mole (Chrysospalax villosa) is near-endemic.

    Highveld grasslands 2008

  • Their black cattle, which are chiefly rough-haired, are reckoned remarkably good.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • It was the lawyer, in _deshabille_ and very rough-haired; and very angry he looked.

    Number 13 by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

  • At a little distance was stretched a small rough-haired form.

    Red Pottage 2004

  • On the pavement alongside this strange, acquiescing assembly of revolt, about to march in protest against the conditions of their lives, stood a young woman without a hat and in poor clothes, but with a sort of beauty in her rough-haired, high cheek-boned, dark-eyed face.

    The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

  • He was a rough-haired dog, of medium size, with a coat of a sort of lilac-grey colour.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • A small, rough-haired dog yelped at the passing boat from the beach beneath the earthworks that protected the island's guns, but there were no other signs of life.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

  • A small, rough-haired dog yelped at the passing boat from the beach beneath the earthworks that protected the island's guns, but there were no other signs of life.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

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