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blonde, blond, a. and n.|blɒnd|
Forms: 5 blounde, 7– blonde, 8– blond.
[a. F. blond, blonde yellow-haired, ‘a colour midway between golden and light chestnut’ (Littré), = Sp. blondo, It. biondo:—med.L. blondus, blundus yellow (explained in a passage quoted by Du Cange ‘flavus qui vulgo dicitur blondus’). Origin uncertain: see Diez and Littré. In English used by Caxton (in form blounde); reintroduced from mod.Fr. in 17th c., and still sometimes treated as French, as to be written without final e when applied to a man, esp. substantively, a blonde; in N. Amer. commonly written blond like the Fr. masculine, but in Britain the form blonde is now preferred in all senses.
Cf. OE. blanden-feax, blonden-feax having mixed or grizzly hair, grey-haired, old; also beblonden, given in Bosworth as ‘dyed’, both from blondan to mix, bland v. Hence Du Cange, s.v. Blundus, conjectures the original sense to be ‘dyed’, the ancient Germans being accustomed to dye the hair yellow.]
A. adj.
a. Properly (of the hair): Of a light golden brown, light auburn; but commonly used in sense of light-coloured, ‘fair’, as opposed to ‘dark’, or ‘brunette’, and extended to the complexion of those who have hair of this colour.
1481Caxton Myrr. ii. xvii. 103 The rayes of the sonne make the heer of a man abourne or blounde. 1484― Ryall Bk. O v, They arraye theyr heer lyke wymmen and force it to be yelowe, and yf they be blacke, they by crafte make them blounde and abourne. 1683Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 192 Prince George of Denmark..had the Danish countenance, blonde. 1798Life Cath. II (ed. 2) I. iv. 426 A fine blond head of hair. 1834Campbell Life Mrs. Siddons II. ii. 55 A delicate and blonde beauty. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. v. iv. 306 If the blond girl were forsaken.
b. of flowers. poet.
c1865M. Arnold Thyrsis xiii, Red loosestrife and blond meadow-sweet.
c. blond(e lace: see B 2.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 84, I missed three quarters of blond lace. c1840C'tess Blessington Sk. & Fragm. in Casquet Lit. (1877) I. 216/2 Wore my new Parisian robe of blonde lace.
d. Comb., as blonde-complexioned, blonde-locked, adjs.; blond(e) beast [tr. G. blonde bestie], a man of the Nordic type; blond-metal, a variety of clay ironstone of the coal measures.
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metals I. 33 In the neighbourhood of Wednesbury is dug that peculiar species of iron ore called blond metal. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. i. xi. 73 That little blonde-locked too hasty Dauphin. c1880Grant Allen Anglo-Sax. Brit. 56 We know that the pure Anglo-Saxons were a..blonde-complexioned race. [1887F. W. Nietzsche Zur Genealogie der Moral i. 21 Das Raubthier, die prachtvolle nach Beute und Sieg lüstern schweifende blonde Bestie.] 1907G. B. Shaw Maj. Barbara Pref. 151 Nietzsche..is the victim in England of a single much quoted..phrase ‘big blonde beast’. 1911G. K. Chesterton Innoc. Father Brown x. 266 The man..was a magnificent creature... In structure he was the blonde beast of Nietzsche. 1949G. B. Shaw 16 Self Sketches xiv. 105 My auburn hair was never really Highland red like my sister Agnes's. But I was a ‘blonde beast’ of Danish type unmistakably. 1967M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink x. 73 If he did not throw in his lot with this big blond beast he would go to prison anyway.
B. n.
1. A person with blond hair; one with light or ‘fair’ hair and the corresponding complexion; esp. a woman, in which case spelt blonde.
1822Edin. Rev. 199 Brenda, the laughing blue-eyed blonde. 1833Penny Cycl. s.v. Albinos, The blonds of the European race. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. 212 Negative or washed blondes, arrested by Nature on the way to become albinesses.
2. a. (More fully blonde lace): A silk lace of two threads, twisted and formed in hexagonal meshes; orig. of the colour of raw silk, but now white or black: see quot. 1882. Now usually written blonde, as always in Fr. (sc. dentelle).
c1755Mrs. Delany in Harper's Mag. (1884) July 260/1 A French cap..of blond. 1760Lond. Mag. XXIX. 389 Raving about gauze, Blon, Brussels, and ruffles. 1766Anstey Bath Guide iii. 87 Fringes, Blonds, and Mignionets. 1828Moore Prop. Gynæocr. Wks. (1862) 549 Burdetts in blonde, and Broughams in bustles. 1882Beck Draper's Dict. s.v., Blonde laces were first made in 1745, and being produced from unbleached silk, were known as ‘Nankins’ or ‘Blondes’.
b. attrib. Of blonde.
1816Scott Antiq. vi, Triple blond ruffles. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. i. viii. 78 Beautifullest blonde-dresses and broadcloth coats.
Add:[A.] [d.] blonde ray, a pale brown ray, Raja brachyura, of south-west European waters.
1925J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles 333 A large *blonde Ray was caught by the trawl and placed alive in a tank. 1959A. Hardy Open Sea II. ix. 186 The short-nosed species have their bodies of a typical diamond shape, due to the pointed wing-tips and short but well-defined snout; they are..the thornback ray..the blonde ray; [etc.]. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 12 Nov. 25/7 The blonde rays..put in the occasional appearance on the Shambles Bank.
▸ blonde moment n. humorous or depreciative an instance of a person, esp. a woman, behaving in a way that is regarded as stereotypical of a blonde, esp. in being foolish or scatterbrained; cf. dumb blonde at dumb adj. 7b.
1993X-Men Cartoon in rec.arts.animation (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Feb. The only two characters with semi-decent voice and personalities is Storm and the southern belle (*Blonde moment causes me to loose [sic] her name). 1998Toronto Star (Nexis) 8 Feb. b2 [She] must have had a blonde moment when she wore that glitzy Armani number. 2004A. R. Burke Defiance 34 When she nearly tripped over the suitcases she had left on the floor near the door, she laughed at her foolish little ‘blonde moment’. |