BLONDE


Meaning of BLONDE in English

■ adjective (also blond ) (of hair) fair or pale yellow.

↘having fair hair and a light complexion.

■ noun

1》 a woman with ~ hair.

2》 the colour of ~ hair.

Derivatives

blondish adjective

blondness noun

Origin

C17 (earlier as blond ): from Fr., feminine of blond , from med. L. blundus 'yellow', perh. from Gmc.

Usage

The alternative spellings ~ and blond correspond to the feminine and masculine forms in French, but in English the distinction is not always made, as English does not have such distinctions of grammatical gender. In the noun the spelling is typically ~ , however.

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