white-headed
Americanadjective
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having fair or flaxen hair.
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being especially favored; fair-haired.
He's the company's white-headed boy.
Etymology
Origin of white-headed
First recorded in 1515–25
Example Sentences
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The white-headed raptors would show up in winter to feast on fish when their lakes farther north froze over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
The bald eagle is now officially the national bird of the US, after President Joe Biden signed a law on Christmas Eve bestowing the honour upon the white-headed and yellow-beaked bird of prey.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Other birds that flock to burned forests include white-headed woodpeckers, Lewis's woodpeckers, three-toed woodpeckers, olivesided flycatchers, Clark's nutcrackers and mountain bluebirds.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2022
And we saw sitting in that same place as it were a man, white-headed, having hair like snow; youthful of countenance; whose feet we saw not.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
Only, the Great Gate stood open and Uncle Dap was there, brat and white-headed, to receive his horse.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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