blonde meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

blonde

noun

UK /blɒnd/ · US /blɑnd/

Etymology From Middle French blonde f. See blond.

Alternative Alternative form of blond (“person with fair hair”). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)

Alternative Alternative form of blond (“color”)

Alternative Alternative form of blond (“type of beer”)

(film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.

Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63:

Derived terms: ash blonde, atomic blonde, aviation blonde, blonde joke, blonde moment, blondeness, blondie, blondster, bottle blonde, bronde, dirty blonde, dishwater blonde, dumb blonde, golden blonde, honey blonde, ice blonde, nonblonde, peroxide blonde, platinum blonde, sandy blonde, strawberry blonde, titanium blonde

adj

Etymology From Middle French blonde f. See blond.

Alternative, Especially, Of a woman Alternative form of blond.

So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisper blonde luxuriance of August.1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
Como en aquel bar de Copenhague lleno de hombres rubios y de mujeres rubias que al final resultaron ser también hombres rubios, donde el Torpedero Tucumán se había enfadado porque al meter mano se encontró quinientos buenos gramos de lo que no esperaba; […]2001, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, “The Lost Ship”, in The Nautical Chart, San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt, Inc., →ISBN, page 78:

1 more example

The tables are full of blond men and blonde women, the room full of the smells of food and the sound of harsh, clipped Northlander voices.2007, Meg Burden, chapter 9, in Northlander (Tales of the Borderlands; 1), Weston, Conn.: Brown Barn Books, →ISBN, page 67:

Especially, Offensive, Of a woman Stupid, ignorant, naive.

Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!”2005, Nancy Bartholomew, Lethally Blonde, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 8:
I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.2014, Aviva Drescher, Leggy Blonde: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

1 more example

“She was so blonde, she studied for a blood test, when she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, 'Airport Left,' she turned around and went home, when she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.2003, Bennett Fairorth, The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 201: