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Definition of Longhairs
1. longhair [n] - See also: longhair
Lexicographical Neighbors of Longhairs
Literary usage of Longhairs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aristophanes Clouds by Aristophanes (1915)
"... nailed-dilettante-longhairs ; the persistence of the type seems to prove that
Arist. has here hit on the essentials, not the accidentia, ..."
2. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1897)
"... most of the old Republicans got, by way of contrast, to be called “the
longhairs;” and these ..."
3. American Indian Life by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1922)
"He is killing our enemies, the longhairs beyond the Mutsun waters to the South.
That is good, too. He has taken away some of our neighbors, the Miwok. ..."
4. Film Folk: "close-ups" of the Men, Women, and Children who Make the "movies" by Robert Leicester Wagner (1918)
""What business is it of a lot of longhairs if a lady wants to drink?" Mother is
alcoholically very 1776. One serious blunder that must be avoided by the ..."
5. The Paradisus Londinensis: Or Coloured Figures of Plants Cultivated in the ...by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker (1807)
"... much narrower than the leaves, and ciliated with longhairs intermixed with
sessile glands. Pedicels very short. Leaves of the calyx similar to the ..."
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