[f. CARROTY + -NESS.] Carroty quality or color, ‘redness of hair’ (J.).
1730–6. Bailey, Carotiness.
1755. in Johnson.
a. 1855. Lady E. Stuart Wortley, Sweet South (1856), II. 254. Carrotiness is thought so pretty by the women here, that many of them, when not blessed by Nature with a fiery poll, paint their hair bright red, thinking it a truly beauteous colour.
