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red-haired, a.
[See red a. 1 e.]
Having red or reddish hair. (Chiefly of persons.)
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxii. 16 He wes ane lusty reid haird [v.r. rid-harit] lowry. 1530Palsgr. 322/1 Reed heared, roux, rouse. 1607Chapman Bussy d'Ambois iii. i, Worse than the poison of a red-hair'd man. 1715Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) V. 129 The famous Dr Hammond was a red-hair'd Man. 1777Lightfoot Flora Scot. II. 1002 Red-haired Byssus. 1815Scott Guy M. xviii, Is my future friend red-haired? 1889I. Taylor Orig. Aryans ii. 110 The tall, red-haired brachycephalic Irishman and Scot.
absol.1726Swift Gulliver iv. viii, It is observed, that the Red-haired of both Sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest.
transf.a1704T. Brown Wks. (1720) III. 187 The red-hair'd Chariotteer of the Day, meaning the Sun. 1813W. S. Walker Gustavus Vasa iii. 101 But see! the red-haired sun to ocean bends. |