Meanings
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1
adj
being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes
Blond Scandinavians.
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2
adj
Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
Blond hair.
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3
adj
Having blond hair.
He seemed—somehow—younger than I had ever been, and blonder and more beautiful, and he wore his masculinity as unequivocally as he wore his skin.
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4
adj
Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”).
“She was so blond, that where it said 'sign here,' she wrote Gemini.” He had given her only the weakest of smiles.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). More at blend. Alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्र...