black-haired

From black +‎ haired.

• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d

black-haired (comparative more black-haired or blacker-haired, superlative most black-haired or blackest-haired)

1. Having hair of a black color.

   Synonyms: eumelanic, melanocomous

   • 1992, Iain Banks, chapter 9, in The Crow Road, London: Abacus, published 1996, →ISBN, page 221:

     Aline looked even smaller and blacker-haired than usual, beside Ashley.

   • 2007, Melissa Benn, “1939”, in One of Us, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 31:

     Then, the voice of the oldest of the Lay brothers, the leader of the pack, the tallest, the blackest-haired, the bluest-eyed.

   • 2017, Graham Hancock, “Friday 27 May 1520–Saturday 28 May 1520”, in Night of Sorrows (War God; 3), London: Coronet, →ISBN, page 293:

     He smiled, remembering the morning when Esteban and Gregorio, two of his darkest-eyed, blackest-haired and most sunburnt men, had come to him with a daring plan that he’d immediately sanctioned.