Meaning of bleached blond | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A (usually pale) blond color obtained using bleach
   countable, uncountable
2. A person with light blond hair obtained by bleaching.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“For a moment he became George Sanders, and when he looked up it was in embarrassment, for one of the two clerks, or owners, of the small shop was looking through the window at him smiling — a delicate, tall young man with streaks of bleached blond like rivers through his sandy hair, and a slim, girlish body in tightly fitted slacks.”

“She is taller than I am, wearing a sleeveless white shirt tucked into black linen pants. Her hair is the shade of bleached blond I particularly associate with upper-class southern women.”

“In subdued lighting Robert can still look like a catch. His hair is a subtle shade of bleached blond and his tan speaks of some place where men are not afraid to use a sunbed. Only his chicken-skin neck betrays his true age.”

“His wife, surely, she thought, as she tried to gather a more complete picture of the woman, a bleached blond with a fair figure.”

“A bleached blond with darting black eyes, native of England, who by her own admission engaged in a form of sorcery euphemistically labeled “white magic,” was listening to Rolf’s declarations and was becoming rather inspired.”

“Renata, who took her cues from the bleached blond, rather than the other way around, was too experienced a flautist to rehearse further.”

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