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In Greek literature women including goddesses such as Hera and Aphrodite and mortals such as Penelope, Andromache, and Nausicaa can be described as leukōlenos (λευκώλενος, "white-armed"). [62] [63] Athena is described as having blondish or brownish hair (xanthe (Ξανθή)) [64] and blue, green, or grey eyes.
Bacchylides described Theseus as wearing a hat with red hair, which classicists believe was Thracian in origin. [60] Other ancient writers who described the hair of the Thracians as red include Hecataeus of Miletus, [61] Galen, [62] Clement of Alexandria, [63] and Julius Firmicus Maternus. [64] Hunting scene, Thracian tomb of Aleksandrovo, c ...
He has long flame-red hair and green eyes. He is a hunter and favors the color blue. Longfin (female): Lifemate of Pirn and Shadowcrest, mother of Sandsparkle and Darshek and grandmother of an unnamed child who died young. She has long bluish-gray hair and dark violet eyes. She is a rockshaper and favors opalescent colors.
She had regular and pretty features, blue eyes, and fair complexion; her hair was of a light auburn colour, and hung in a profusion of braided tresses over her shoulders, from a bonnet of scarlet cloth, trimmed and crossed with broad silver lace, not unlike the Albanian skull-cap.
Bed blocker: [7] A derogatory term used to describe older people taking up hospital beds in a healthcare system. Beldame: An outdated term referring to an old woman, especially an ugly one. Biddy: [8] An annoying, gossipy or interfering old lady. Blue-hair: [2] Derogatory term referring to older women who color their hair a distinctive silvery ...
Glynis had light brown hair, blue eyes, and was five feet, four inches [163 cm] in height. Dancing was of great interest to her and her favourite recreation, coupled with the collecting of good, syncopated numbers: Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" was her favourite. Her favourite classical composers were Grieg, Mozart, and Debussy. Riding, tennis ...
Changes in hair colour typically occur naturally as people age, eventually turning the hair grey and then white. This normally begins in the early to mid-twenties in men and late twenties in women. More than 60 percent of Americans have some grey hair by age 40. The age at which greying begins seems almost entirely due to genetics. Sometimes ...
Angela Brigid Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family on October 16, 1925. [1] Although her birthplace has often been given as Poplar, east London, [2] she rejected this, stating that while she had ancestral connections to Poplar, she was born in Regent's Park, central London.