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In the United States, the term "Black Irish" was initially used in the 19th and 20th centuries by Irish Americans to describe people of Irish descent who have black or dark-colored hair, blue or dark eyes, or otherwise dark coloring.
Robert Steiner reviewed the book in the Los Angeles Times: "Blue Eyes, Black Hair is one of those minor erotic fictions that contemporary French literature celebrates. One finds it in Bataille, Blanchot and Robbe-Grillet—the familiar business of sex and death at a seascape, with parched characters whose sexual obsessions are poetry and whose longing becomes mordant philosophy[.]"
Distinguishing characteristics: Black male, 5-foot-10, 120 pounds, black hair, brown eyes. Last seen wearing a black hat, black jacket, dark pants and black shoes. 70 years old at the time of ...
In English, various types of black hair are sometimes described as soft-black, raven black, or jet-black. The range of skin colors associated with black hair is vast, ranging from the palest of light skin tones to dark skin. Black-haired humans can have dark or light eyes, but more commonly dark.
Blue hair does not naturally occur in human hair pigmentation, [1] although the hair of some animals (such as dog coats) is described as blue. Some people (typically of East Asian descent) are born with black hair that is so dark that it appears to have a metallic blue luster. In Japan, the beauty ideal for a woman is to have glossy "blue-black ...
In parts of Europe and North America where blond hair was more common, the pairing of extremely white skin with very dark hair also present among some Circassians was exalted, even in Russia which was at war with the Circassians; Semyon Bronevskii exalted Circassian women for having light skin, dark brown hair, dark eyes and "the lineaments of ...
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.
The Galway Girl" tells the semi-autobiographical story of the songwriter's reaction to a beautiful black-haired blue-eyed girl he meets in Galway, Ireland. [1] Local references include Salthill and The Long Walk.