hairen

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English

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Etymology

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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).

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Adjective

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hairen (comparative more hairen, superlative most hairen)

  1. (obsolete, now chiefly dialectal) Consisting or made of hair
    • 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:
      His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet.

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Noun

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hairen

  1. plural of hair (hairshirt)