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Blondness

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blond also blonde  (blnd)
adj. blond·er, blond·est
1. Having fair hair and skin and usually light eyes: blond Scandinavians.
2. Of a flaxen or golden color or of any light shade of auburn or pale yellowish brown: blond hair.
3. Light-colored through bleaching: blond furniture.
n.
1. A person with fair hair and skin and usually light eyes.
2. A light yellowish brown to dark grayish yellow.

[Middle English blounde, from Old French blonde, of Germanic origin; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

blondish adj.
blondness n.
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Noun1.blondness - the property of having a naturally light complexion
complexion, skin color, skin colour - the coloring of a person's face


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To her, in the bright sun, Billy's blondness was startling.
Lydgate was almost forgetting that he must carry on the conversation, in thinking how lovely this creature was, her garment seeming to be made out of the faintest blue sky, herself so immaculately blond, as if the petals of some gigantic flower had just opened and disclosed her; and yet with this infantine blondness showing so much ready, self-possessed grace.
 
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