| 单词 | fine-haired |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfine-haired fine-haired adj. †(a) having a good or attractive head of hair (obsolete); (b) having slender or downy hairs, soft-haired (cf. fine hair n.); (c) colloquial (chiefly U.S.) excessively refined or fastidious; snobbish, self-important, ‘stuck up’ (now somewhat rare). ΚΠ 1706 M. Drift Greek Gram. 55 Fine hair'd..from..caput comatum habeo to have a lovely head of Hair. 1868 Amer. Agric. Mar. 81/3 Experiments in introducing the fine-haired goats of Cashmere and Thibet into Southern India, to produce this fine fleece, have failed. 1872 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 27 July The fine-haired chaps in Des Moines wear corsets. 1917 Shoe & Leather Reporter 27 Sept. 246/1 Outersoles..to be cut from fine haired, dry or green salted hides. 1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 94 I despise all you fine-haired sons of bitches. 2007 Pop. Photogr. June 61/2 You can remove it with a small fine-haired paintbrush—if you're skillful. < as lemmas |
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