tow-haired

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Three tow-haired boys entertain themselves quietly as their mother takes notes.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2012

It was sniveling covered with pimples and tow-haired..

From Time Magazine Archive

They knew him better, they thought, than they did Daniel McKinstry, who had grown up among them, just as mild and silent when he was a tow-haired boy as now, a man of forty-five.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

The other was of that mild, blue-eyed, tow-haired type from the Baltic provinces, with the thin, white skin which does not tan but burns.

From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Palmer, Frederick

That afternoon Mrs. Marsden went round to the bank; and next day the tow-haired girl had disappeared.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)