Definition of "woolly-haired" [woolly-haired]

• Woolly-headed, as a person or race of men; ulotrichous. See Ulotrichi.
• Having the pelage more or less woolly or fleecy; woolly, as a beast.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Dons' diaries refer to the "woolly-haired undergraduate with a black wife and piccaninnies"."
• "Just as he's about to seal the deal emotionally, he spies a familiar figure heading his way: Graydon Carter, the woolly-haired gatekeeper of Vanity Fair."
• "Haeckel in History of Creation, printed in America in 1876, wrote, the "woolly-haired" Negros were "incapable of a true inner culture and of a higher mental development.""