| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  bl nd |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also blonde |
| ADJECTIVE: | Inflected forms: blond·er, blond·est
1. Having fair hair and skin and usually light eyes: 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. | | NOUN: | 1. A person with fair hair and skin and usually light eyes. 2. A light yellowish brown to dark grayish yellow. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English blounde, from Old French blonde, of Germanic origin. See bhel-1 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | blond ish —ADJECTIVE
blondness —NOUN
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