blond

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You couldn't miss her -- blond, ebullient and bejeweled with polka-dot nail polish, a brightly colored dress and scarf, in the middle of things with a ready "Hello" and broad smile.

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  1. adjective Having fair hair and skin and usually light eyes: blond Scandinavians.
  2. adjective Of a flaxen or golden color or of any light shade of auburn or pale yellowish brown: blond hair.
  3. adjective Light-colored through bleaching: blond furniture.
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  • Her hair was brown while mine is ash-blond, and she was four and a half by LeMarean calendar whereas I had been just a few months past five—fourteen and sixteen respectively, by Gregorian reckoning—but nonetheless, she could have been my mirror image the day I told Carlos that I was ready to run away from Liberty. —  Asimov's SF, Feb 2002
  • Drew Barrymore has gone platinum blond, a look she hasn't rocked for quite some time. —  Socialite Life
  • The three most common gradations are white, blond, and brown. —  Artvoice - Buffalo's #1 Newsweekly
  • I would listen to Jayna play the "Baby One More Time" single over and over again trying to hit each note, watch her try to coax her dark hair into the perfect double pigtail, spend hours and hours convincing her that dying her hair blond was a bad idea. —  Feministe
  • And i know that there was another episode where another blond was after him. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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  1. Middle English blounde, from Old French blonde, of Germanic origin; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = D. G. Danish blond (Middle High German blunt), from Old French F. blond, feminine blonde, light, fair, = Provencal blon = Spanish blondo = Italian biondo, from Middle Latin blondus, blundus (glossed flavus), yellow. Origin unknown. The supposed connection with Anglo-Saxon blonden-feax, gray-haired, literally having mixed hair, from blonden, blanden, past participle of blandan, mix (see blend), + feax, hair, is hardly probable.
 

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