tow-haired
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Three tow-haired boys entertain themselves quietly as their mother takes notes.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2012
It was sniveling covered with pimples and tow-haired..
From Time Magazine Archive
He was tow-haired and brown-eyed and clean-shaven; he was generally hopeful, which is another way of saying that he was still upon the flowered slope of twenty-five.
From The Azure Rose A Novel by Reginald Wright Kauffman
Is it the sight of the izbas, and their torpid, tow-haired, sheepskin-clad inhabitants, and the great slushy cabbage gardens, that has rekindled the ashen past into colours of flame?
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
He was a tow-haired youngster of fifteen with very bright blue eyes and a tip-tilted nose that gave him a humorously impertinent look.
From Left End Edwards by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea
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