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blonde

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blonde (countable anduncountable,pluralblondes)

(countable)Alternative form ofblond(“person with fair hair”).(Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entryblond.)
Alternative form ofblond(“color”)
blonde:
Alternative form ofblond(“type of beer”)
(countable)(film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-wattlamp.
Coordinate term:redhead
- 2012, Colin Hart,Television Program Making, page63:
  Most [camera crews] carry twoblondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.

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Translations

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blond—seeblond

Adjective

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blonde (comparativeblonderormoreblonde,superlativeblondestormostblonde)

(especially of a woman)Alternative form ofblond.
- 1895, S. R. Crockett,A Cry Across the Black Water:
  So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisperblonde luxuriance of August.
- 2001,Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated byMargaret Sayers Peden, “The Lost Ship”, inThe Nautical Chart, San Diego, Calif.:Harcourt, Inc.,→ISBN,page78:
  In a bar in Copenhagen, for example, filled with blond men andblonde women who in the end turned out to be more blond men, the Torpedoman got riled because when he copped a feel he found a handful of something he hadn’t expected.
  [original:Como en aquel bar de Copenhague lleno de hombres rubios y de mujeresrubias que al final resultaron ser también hombres rubios, donde el Torpedero Tucumán se había enfadado porque al meter mano se encontró quinientos buenos gramos de lo que no esperaba;[…]]
- 2007, Meg Burden, chapter 9, inNorthlander (Tales of the Borderlands; 1), Weston, Conn.: Brown Barn Books,→ISBN,page67:
  The tables are full of blond men andblonde women, the room full of the smells of food and the sound of harsh, clipped Northlander voices.
(especially of a woman, offensive)Stupid,ignorant,naive.
- 2005, Nancy Bartholomew,Lethally Blonde, Silhouette,→ISBN, page 8:
  Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just soblonde!”
- 2014, Aviva Drescher,Leggy Blonde: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN:
  I was soblonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.
- 2003, Bennett Fairorth,The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily, iUniverse,→ISBN, page201:
  “She was soblonde, she studied for a blood test, when she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, 'Airport Left,' she turned around and went home, when she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.

Usage notes

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See the usage notes in the entryblond.

Derived terms

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blonde bombshell

Translations

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blond—seeblond

Verb

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blonde (third-person singular simple presentblondes,present participleblonding,simple past and past participleblonded)

(especially of a woman)Alternative form ofblond.
- 1964,LIFE, volume56, number10, page25:
  Most women whoblonde their hair today have been doing it for several years.