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hairen en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɛəɹən/

Etymology

From Middle English heeren, from Old English hǣren (“made of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *hārīn, equivalent to hair + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots hairen, hairn, herin (“made of hair”), German hären (“made of hair”).

Meanings

1. (dialectal, obsolete) Consisting or made of hair
   • His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet. 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:

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