Long Hair - Transferred Meaning

Transferred Meaning

The traditional connotation of "long hair" in English meant, roughly, someone artistically knowledgeable or wise, an aesthete. As a descriptive term, it has been applied to Merovingians and classical music enthusiasts, as well as hippies and aesthetes.

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Famous quotes containing the words transferred and/or meaning:

    “Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    “From man’s blood-sodden heart are sprung
    Those branches of the night and day
    Where the gaudy moon is hung.
    What’s the meaning of all song?
    “Let all things pass away.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)