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单词 bottle blonde
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bottle blonden.adj.

Brit. /ˌbɒtl ˈblɒnd/, U.S. /ˌbɑdəl ˈblɑnd/
Forms: see bottle n.3 and blonde adj. and n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bottle n.3, blonde n.
Etymology: < bottle n.3 + blonde n., with allusion to the use of bottled hydrogen peroxide to bleach hair. Compare peroxide blonde n. and adj. (a) at peroxide n. and adj. Compounds, peroxide blonde n. and adj. (b) at peroxide n. and adj. Compounds.
Originally U.S. Sometimes depreciative.
A. n.
1. A person, esp. a woman, with dyed or artificially lightened blonde hair.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > person having light
blonde1822
tow-head1829
blondie1882
strawberry blond1884
bottle blonde1898
ash-blond1903
peroxide1903
peroxide blonde1909
platinum blonde1931
1898 Washington Post 16 Jan. iii. 2/7 Lillian uses a different bleach than that of any other bottle blonde on the stage.
1913 McClure's Mag. Aug. 192/2 Spreadin' the report that maw's only a bottle blond.
1962 N.Y. Times 5 Mar. l11/2 From gray haired career gals to bottle-blondes.
1995 Spin Dec. 56/1 Currently he's a bottle blond, but you get the feeling that the tint of his hair could prove as fleeting as the pall over his mood.
2002 Washington Post 2 Oct. (Home ed.) c1/1 The decline and fall of the blonde is most likely being caused by bottle blondes, who researchers believe are more attractive to men than true blondes.
2. A shade of blonde (typically a bright, or very light, colour) produced by dyeing or artificially lightening the hair.
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1931 Athens (Ohio) Messenger 13 Oct. 2/6 On her head perched a rose-coloured hat, accentuating the bottle-blond of her hair.
1992 R. Elms Spain i. 11 Hair bleached into an orange bottle blonde, or dyed harsh raven black.
1995 Times 30 Aug. 14/5 Somehow during her short stay in Washington her hair changed from frosted highlights to bottle blonde.
2006 Times 29 Aug. 18 s/4 The singer..whose hair had turned from jet black to a rather startling bottle-blond, gently mocked the objectors.
B. adj.
Of a person, esp. a woman: having hair of a shade of blonde (typically a bright, or very light, colour) produced by dyeing or artificially lightening the hair. Of hair: having such a colour.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > light hair
yellowOE
blonde1481
towy1858
blondine1867
red-blond1875
strawberry blond1884
ash-blond1903
tow-like1907
bottle blonde1908
blondish1961
strawish1978
1908 McClure's Mag. Nov. 93/1 A lavishly complexioned, bottle-blonde lady.
1975 M. Duffy Capital iv. 186 There were raven rinses, henna heads and bottle blonde beauties.
1978 Cosmopolitan July 196/3 Don't use henna or other ‘organic’ products to ‘refresh’ bottle-blond hair.
1998 Times 4 May 19/5 Bottle-blond lead singer Art Alexakis.
2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake (2004) 59 Her hair was designer messy, bottle blond and windswept.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.adj.1898
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