fair-haired boy
Someone's favorite, especially a young one; a blue-eyed boy (British), (Australian)
fair-haired
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1FAIR-HAIRED + NOUN
angel
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1
Having fair hair.
Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, / Now, while the sun rests on the mountains, light / Thy bright torch of love!
Tom the woodcutter was even taller, broader and fairer-haired than John the woodcutter, though there wasn’t all that much between them in the gormlessness stakes.
2
Given special treatment as a favorite.
Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal.
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Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, / Now, while the sun rests on the mountains, light / Thy bright torch of love!
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Tom the woodcutter was even taller, broader and fairer-haired than John the woodcutter, though there wasn’t all that much between them in the gormlessness stakes.
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Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among
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