longhair
Speech parts
1. longhair - Noun
2. longhair - Adjective
Meaning
A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as bohemian, non-conventional or a hippie.
A person with a deep interest in the classical arts, especially music.
A person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts.
A cat with hair longer than the norm.
longhair (not comparable)
(derogatory, music) Concerning or characteristic of classical music.
I would rather see a musical, but my wife, who loves longhair music, is dragging me to the symphony again.
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By selectively breeding these animals, breeders eventually produced a dog which consistently produced longhair offspring, and the longhair dachshund was born.
In several of his early recordings, Professor Longhair blended Afro-Cuban rhythms with rhythm and blues.
Another theory is that the standard longhair dachshund was developed by breeding smooth dachshunds with various land and water spaniels.
New Orleans musicians such as Bartholomew and Longhair incorporated Cuban instruments, as well as the clave pattern and related two-celled figures in songs such as "Carnival Day," (Bartholomew 1949) and "Mardi Gras In New Orleans" (Longhair 1949).
The genes thus introduced would eventually become the basis for the British Longhair ; at the time, however, any long-haired cats produced were placed into the Persian breeding program.
On the title track, he reminisces about the now-gentrified working-class Nashville neighborhood of his youth, while “15-25,” a look back on that rowdy decade of his life, is also a musical tribute to Professor Longhair.