blonde

CEFRA2

/blɒnd/

adjective · noun

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisper blonde luxuriance of August.
I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.
Most women who blonde their hair today have been doing it for several years.

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So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisper blonde luxuriance of August.
1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
Most [camera crews] carry two blondes 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.
2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63
Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!”
2005, Nancy Bartholomew, Lethally Blonde, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 8
I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.
2014, Aviva Drescher, Leggy Blonde: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
“She was so blonde, 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.
2003, Bennett Fairorth, The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 201

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From Middle French blonde f. See blond.