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blonde
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun blonde has 2 senses
- blonde(n = noun.person) blond - a person with fair skin and hair; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- blonde(n = noun.attribute) blond - a light grayish yellow to near white; Array is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
has particulars: peroxide blond, peroxide blonde, platinum blond, platinum blonde, towhead
Adjective blonde has 1 sense
- blonde(a = adj.all) blond, light-haired - being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes; "blond Scandinavians"; "a house full of light-haired children"
CIDE DICTIONARY
blonde, a. [F., fair, light, of uncertain origin; cf. AS. blonden-feax gray-haired, old, prop. blended-haired, as a mixture of white and brown or black. See Blend, v. t. ].
Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion. [1913 Webster]
blonde, n. [F.].
- A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes. [1913 Webster]
- A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also
blond lace . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
blonde, adj. & n.
--adj. (of a woman or a woman's hair) blond.
--n. a blond-haired woman.
--adj. (of a woman or a woman's hair) blond.
--n. a blond-haired woman.
Etymology
F fem. of blond; see BLOND
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