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 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
The U.S. bald eagle population has quadrupled since 2009, and these large, white-headed raptors are now a regular sight even in New York City; bald eagles breed on Staten Island, for example.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 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
It was a little old white-headed woman working in a flower bed.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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