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blonde

a blond-haired female: A beautiful blonde stepped onto the stage.

Not to be confused with:

blond – light-colored hair or complexion: He has blond hair and blue eyes.

blond

also blonde (blŏnd)

adj. blond·er, blond·est

1. Having fair hair and skin: blond Scandinavians.

2. Of a flaxen or golden color or of any light shade of auburn or pale yellowish brown: blond hair.

3. Light-colored through bleaching: blond furniture.

1. A person with fair hair and skin.

2. A light yellowish brown to dark grayish yellow.

[Middle English blounde, from Old French blonde, of Germanic origin; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

blond′ish adj.

blond′ness n.

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blonde

(blɒnd)

adj

1. (of women's hair) of a light colour; fair

2. (of a person, people or a race) having fair hair, a light complexion, and, typically, blue or grey eyes

3. (Furniture) (of soft furnishings, wood, etc) light in colour

4. a person, esp a woman, having light-coloured hair and skin

5. (Textiles) Also called: blonde lace a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk

[C15: from Old French blond (fem blonde), probably of Germanic origin; related to Late Latin blundus yellow, Italian biondo, Spanish blondo]

ˈblondeness n

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blonde

(blɒnd)

adj.

1. (of a woman or girl) having fair hair.

2. a woman or girl having this coloration.

[see blond]

blonde′ness, n.

usage: blonde is still widely used for the noun specifying a woman or girl with fair hair. Some people regard this as sexist, preferring blond for all persons. blond is the usual spelling for the adjective referring to either sex (an energetic blond girl; two blond sons) or describing hair, complexion, etc. blonde is still occasionally applied to a female (the blonde model and her escort) and in British English is the preferred spelling for all senses of the adjective.

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Noun	1.	blonde - a person with fair skin and hair blond individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" peroxide blond, peroxide blonde - a blond whose hair is bleached with peroxide platinum blond, platinum blonde - a blond whose hair is a pale silvery (often artificially colored) blond towhead - a person with light blond hair
	2.	blonde - a light grayish yellow to near white blond chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour - a color that has hue
Adj.	1.	blonde - being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes; "blond Scandinavians"; "a house full of light-haired children" blond, light-haired

blonde

blond

adjective

1. fair, light, light-coloured, flaxen The baby had blonde curls.

2. fair-haired, golden-haired, tow-headed She was tall, blonde and attractive.

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blond

also blonde
adjective

Having light hair:

fair, fair-haired, towheaded.

Translations

أَشْقَرشَقْراء

blonďatýblondýnka

blondblondine

Blondine blond

ξανθός ξανθότριχος

blondablondulinoblondulo

rubia rubio

vaaleatukkainen

blond blonde

koji ima plavu kosu

ljóshærî kona, ljóska

biondo

ブロンドの

금발인

blondínka

plavolaska

blond

เป็นสีทอง

sarışınsarışın kadın

vàng hoe

金发女郎金发碧眼的

blonde

adj → blond; I want to go blonde → ich möchte meine Haare blondieren (lassen)

(= woman) → Blondine f

(Brit pej inf) you’re such a blonde! → du bist ein echter Obertrottel!, du bist echt blond! (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

blonde

[blɒnd]

1. n (woman) → bionda

2. adj → biondo/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

blond

(blond) – feminine blonde – adjective

having light-coloured hair. a blond child.

blonde noun

a woman with light-coloured hair.

blonde

→ أَشْقَر blonďatý blond blond ξανθός rubio vaaleatukkainen blond koji ima plavu kosu biondo ブロンドの 금발인 blond blond blond loiro белокурый blond เป็นสีทอง sarışın vàng hoe 金发碧眼的

blond

, blonde

a. rubio-a, Mex. güero-a.

My hair is naturally blonde → Mit hår er naturligt blondt → Mein Haar ist von Natur aus blond → Mi pelo es rubio natural → Hiukseni ovat luonnonvaaleat → Imam prirodno plavu kosu → 나는 원래 금발머리예요 → Mijn haar is van nature blond → Håret mitt er naturlig blondt → Moje włosy są blond z natury → Meu cabelo é naturalmente loiro → Mitt hår är äkta blont → Doğal sarışınım → Tóc tôi màu vàng tự nhiên → 我的头发是自然金黄色的

blonde

adj rubia, güera (Mex) n rubia, güera (Mex)

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Can ye show me a lighter woman than the blonde lady that was the cause of me hat falling in the water?

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"Gee, it's like old times," Jimmy explained to the gang that gave him the laugh as Martin and the blonde whirled away in a waltz.

But Martin restored the blonde to Jimmy, and the three of them, with half a dozen friends, watched the revolving couples and laughed and joked with one another.

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She smiled squarely into the face of a boy who was hurrying by with his hands buried in his overcoat, his blonde locks bobbing on his youthful temples, and a cheery smile of unconcern upon his lips.

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Moreover, much about the same time as Firenzuola was writing, Botticelli's blonde, angular, retrousse women were breaking every one of that beauty- master's canons, perfect in beauty none the less; and lovers then, and perhaps particularly now, have found the perfect beauty in faces to which Messer Firenzuola would have denied the name of face at all, by virtue of a quality which indeed he has tabulated, but which is far too elusive and undefinable, too spiritual for him truly to have understood,--a quality which nowadays we are tardily recognising as the first and last of all beauty, either of nature or art,--the supreme, truly divine, because materialistically unaccountable, quality of Charm!

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Mary Hendrikhovna, a plump little blonde German, in a dressing jacket and nightcap, was sitting on a broad bench in the front corner.

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Twenty years of age, a charming blonde, with blue eyes, milk-white complexion, and radiant with divine health, Mathilde Stangerson was one of the most beautiful marriageable girls in either the old or the new world.

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There were plenty of pretty faces to admire, but the young man took little notice of them, except to glance now and then at some blonde girl in blue.

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There is a very pleasant little Frenchman--when they are nice they are charming--and a German doctor, a big blonde man, who looks like a great white bull; and two Americans, besides mother and me.

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Lovell Mingott, a large blonde lady in creaking satin, he sat down beside his betrothed, and said in a low tone: "I hope you've told Madame Olenska that we're engaged?

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So at work I have no choice other than to be blonde and proud of it.

The golden rule

She also covers prejudices such as the Nazi preference for blonde hair and blue eyes.