a.
Having fair or light-colored hair.
1626. Massinger, Rom. Actor, II. i. Fair-haired Calliope.
1725. Pope, Odyss., VI. 145.
| The fair-hair’d Dryads of the shady wood, | |
| Or azure daughters of the silver flood? |
1814. Scott, Wav., xx. The flash of the gun cost me a fair-haired son.
1892. S. R. Gardiner, Student’s Hist. Eng., 6. The Celts were fair-haired and taller than the Iberians whom they conquered or displaced.
† b. In the name of a plant (see quot.).
1597. Gerard, Herball (1598), 102. The faire haired Iacint.
