raven
/ˈɹeɪvən/
adjective
(especially of hair) being shiny and black in color
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1First, ravens are bigger.
2Normally, ravens eat fruit and nuts, as well as insects and small animals like lizards.
3Well, ravens can imitate sounds, too!
4The ravens were dirty birds.
5Raven from "Teen Titans."
red
/ˈɹɛd/
adjective
(of a person's hair or an animal's fur) orange-brown or red-brown in color
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1I ran that red light?
2[alarm] - 2471 just went red.
3Unlike normal red cells which are pliant, sickle cells are rigid and also sticky.
4This dinosaur was red.
5Her face turned red.
redheaded
/ˈɹɛdˌhɛdɪd/
adjective
(of a person) having reddish-brown hair, sometimes paired with a white skin
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1- As a redheaded woman I noticed.
2You should suddenly see a tall redheaded.
3In the 1970s, Apple Jacks cereal created a redheaded cartoon mascot named Jane.
4Every single redheaded guy says that he was called Opie at some point, like my father.
5Science is on the side of our redheaded friends.
ash blond
/ˈæʃ blˈɑːnd/
adjective
(of hair) having a very pale grayish blond color

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auburn
/ˈɑbɝn/
adjective
(of hair) brownish-red in color
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1He played at Auburn.
2Auburn simply didn't have an answer for Bama's force.
3But for Cam and Auburn, the road to a national championship still ran through Tuscaloosa and a battle for state bragging rights.
4Auburn had to make a few stops.
5We have auburn.
blond
/ˈbɫɑnd/
adjective
(of hair) pale yellow or gold in color
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1And she had blond hair.
2They all have blond hair, blue eyes.
3Blonds have the most hair, with about 140,000 strands per head.
4My hair was really blond in that video.
5So they have blond hair.
bottle blond
/bˈɑːɾəl blˈɑːnd/
adjective
(of hair) bleached and light blond in color

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brunette
/bɹuˈnɛt/
adjective
having a shade of brown hair that is darker than auburn and lighter than black
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1She ordered a brunette wig, the Joanna wig.
2Eumelanin dominates brunette heads.
3She's brunette.
4She has brunette hair and brown eyes.
5- I'm a brunette!
carroty
/kˈæɹɑːɾi/
adjective
(of hair) reddish-orange in color
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1Look at his little hats and his carroty nose.
2Look at his little head and carroty nose.
3- It does have a weird carroty flavor.
4But don't be fooled by it's carroty looks.
dark
/ˈdɑɹk/
adjective
(of hair, skin, or eyes) having a color close to brown or black
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1The water in the lochs is cold and dark.
2Snow is falling, and the sky is darker.
3It looked dark and lonely, surrounded by trees.
4Look for the City men with their dark suits and umbrellas!
5Our house was dark.
flaxen
/flˈæksən/
adjective
(of hair) pale yellow in color
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1yeah, flaxen like you mean it.
ginger
/ˈdʒɪndʒɝ/
adjective
(of someone's hair or an animal's fur) bright orange-brown in color
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1Put ginger.
2Ginger offers amazing health benefits, especially for sore muscles and pain.
3Surprisingly, ginger managed the pain as effectively as any other OTC pain-reliever.
4Ginger alleviates extreme symptoms of dysmenorrhea.
5Ginger offers many health benefits to the body - especially to the lungs.
gingery
/ˈdʒɪndʒɝi/
adjective
(used especially of hair or fur) being reddish-brown in color
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1A gingery hit right off the bat
2But you really get up to that one ounce for that gingery quality.
3Yeah it smells very gingery.
4Gingery bodies and pointed faces give the bats the nickname "flying foxes."
5- It's very gingery -
gray
/ˈɡɹeɪ/
adjective
(of a person) having gray hair as a sign of aging
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1One day one of the girls in her class said to her, "Miss Smith, why does a man's hair become gray before his mustache and beard do?"
2Gray dollops of thermal pates on the back of the motherboard transfer heat to the metal frame of the phone.
3The four blue tiles on the left are gray.
4The sky was gray.
5Life is gray.
grizzled
/ˈɡɹɪzəɫd/
adjective
having hair that is partly gray or white
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1- a grizzled divorcee at 18 that's hilarious.
2And Michael Douglas, the grizzled veteran, rolls in and says, what happens?
3- Explain to me its grizzled fate.
4So we've got the grizzled officer of the law.
5There are six grizzled old patrons.
mousy
/ˈmaʊsi/
adjective
(of hair) pale brown in color that is considered to be too plain
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1- That was a very, very, again a very mousy very good.
2and I think she's a little bit mousy?
3- It's mousy brown, right?
4- I think definitely mousy brown, is the word.
5and then you notice I started to go like a bit mousy.
pepper-and-salt
/pˈɛpɚɹændsˈɑːlt/
adjective
(especially of hair) having two shades of color one of which is darker than the other
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1The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism, while, methought, the one in pepper-and-salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer.
2He stroked his pepper-and-salt moustache with a gesture intended rather to indicate than conceal the smile of experience beneath it.
platinum blond
/plˈætɪnəm blˈɑːnd/
adjective
(of hair) being silvery blonde in color
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1Hughes transformed her into Jean Harlow, the platinum blond bombshell who became a sensation during the 1930’s.
2Level one being black and level 10 being like a platinum blond.
3Tonight, he discovered her for this picture and we think her platinum blond locks and hot-jazz baby-doll style are going to make her a big star.
4In fact, the actress famed for her platinum blond curls actually was a dark haired brunette.
fair-haired
/fˈɛɹhˈɛɹd/
adjective
having hair that is light in color
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1Their daughters were both fair-haired smiling girls who looked a lot like their mother. -
2And here's Richard Willstatter, who was 24 then, the fair-haired boy in the lab, who got the Nobel Prize in 1920 as an organic chemist.
gray-haired
/ɡɹˈeɪhˈɛɹd/
adjective
having hair that is gray in color
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1It was not in the exquisite mildness of the old Marquise, a little gray-haired bunch of a woman in dowdy mourning, or in the small neat presence of the priestly uncle, the Abbé who had so obviously just stepped down from one of the picture-frames overhead: it was not in the aspect of these chief protagonists, so outwardly unformidable, that Durham read an occult danger to his friend.
2Sometimes we picture God as some gray-haired guy in the sky that's a million miles away, and truly the creator of the universe created us.
3When you look at the face of an architect, most people think a gray-haired white guy.
sandy
/ˈsændi/
adjective
(especially of hair) pale yellowish-brown in color
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1Sandy tell them.
2This one right here's not even sandy.
3Sandy: Tell me about it, stud.
4Sandy mentioned the effects of NAFTA.
5- Hi, my name is Sandy
strawberry blond
/stɹˈɔːbɛɹi blˈɑːnd/
adjective
(of hair) being blond with a red shade

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hoary
/ˈhɔɹi/
adjective
(of hair) gray or white indicating old age
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1And it's a class with a long and hoary traditions.
2But isn't that kind of what, like Game of Thrones is taking like hoary old fantasy cliches and just marrying them - Upending it!
3Shout out to the hoary hosts of Hoggath!
4Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes.
5Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm, And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag, wavering to and fro, Crossed and recrossed the winged snow And ere the early bedtime came The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts.
colored
/ˈkəɫɝd/
adjective
dyed or treated with a particular hue or shade
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1Sometimes he used colored leader.
2According to a study, colored potatoes have greater antioxidant properties than white ones.
3They see colored numbers.
4- You colored.
5- I love colored pencils.
fair
/ˈfɛɹ/
adjective
(of skin or hair) very light in color
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1- dual agency is fair?
2Fair is fair.
3Fair is fair.
4Today's word is fair.
5Are these new terms fair?

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