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blue rinse
[rinse n. 2 c.]
a. Hairdressing. A solution or cream used as a rinse on grey or white hair so as to give it a temporary blue tint. Also attrib.
1944M. Laski Love on Supertax x. 93, I think I'll have a blue rinse to-day. 1949N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate 221 A blue rinse for her grey hair. 1959Spectator 24 Sept. 394/3 Women..with bitter-sweet smiles and blue-rinse bobs. 1981N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Feb. vi. 82/1 Another French shampoo..acts as a blue rinse on the hair. 1985Amer. Banker 6 Nov. 24 She is elderly, her wealth is inherited, she favors a blue rinse for her hair.
b. fig. Used attrib. to refer to the group of middle-class elderly ladies who favour a blue rinse, or to elderly women in general.
1964Punch 28 Oct. 633/2 The blue-rinse vote went down the drain, and..the Northern liberals and the coons went with 'em. 1977New Yorker 3 Jan. 46/3 The Sydney Green Bans..originated in an unlikely coalition of affluent communities, led by embattled suburban matrons known as ‘the blue rinse set’. 1982Financial Times 14 Apr. ii. 17/1 The Liberal Party: that great grey mass of middle-class small businessmen, shopkeepers,..blue-rinse ladies, widows, [etc.]. 1986Los Angeles Times 16 Aug. v. 9/3 During his 16-year tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mehta was at once a matinee idol of the blue-rinse brigade and a favorite target of critical barbs.
Hence blue-rinsed ppl. a.; blue-rinse v. trans., to apply a blue rinse to (the hair).
1958J. Cannan And be a Villain ii. 47 He thought with satisfaction of his own blue-rinsed little-black-frocked mother-in-law. 1962J. Braine Life at Top xiii. 170 Tom was..very proud of his mane of white hair... There were some people in Dufton who said that he blue rinsed it a little. 1968Listener 31 Oct. 565/3 ‘Is this what you call an education?’ said a blue-rinsed Manhattan matron. |