单词 | bottle blonde |
释义 | bottle blonden.adj. 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.adj.1898 |
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