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edna | blond |

As a proper noun edna

is .

As a noun blond is

a person of fair hair.

As an adjective blond is

of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.

As a verb blond is

to color or dye blond.

edna

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1611 King James Version of the Bible: Tobit 10:12 :
    • Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die.
  • * 1866 , St. Elmo , G. W. Dillingham 1866, page 54:
    • 'Edna' , forsooth! No doubt her origin and morals are quite as apocryphal as her name.
  • * 1990 Linda Barnes: Coyote, p.102 :
    • Conjure faces to go with these names: Edna' and Joy. Then I'll tell you that ' Edna , who has a wicked serve, is our team beauty, and Joy is as plain and dour as they come.

    Usage notes

    *Popular in the U.S.A. during the latter half of 19th century, in the U.K. in early 20th century.

    Related terms

    * Eithne, Ena, Enya, Etna

    References

    Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges:A Concise Dictionary of First Names.Oxford University Press 2001.

    Anagrams

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    blond

    English

    (wikipedia blond)

    Alternative forms

    * blonde

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of fair hair.
  • A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially as a hair color.

    • Usage notes

    *This word can vary according to gender, with "blond" being used of males and "blonde" of females, following French usage. * Some writers, especially in the US, treat the spellings as interchangeable or use blond gender-neutrally. * Traditional terms for light hair are "fair(-haired]])''", "''fairheaded''", "''flaxen''", "''tow-haired''", and "''towhead([[towheaded, ed) ".

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
    • blond hair
    blonde''' ale''; '''''blonde beer
  • * 1914 , in the American Anthropologist :
    • She has a blond complexion, with brown hair and gray eyes.
  • :* {{quote-magazine, year=2011, month=Feb, title=Beauty Confessions, volume=216, issue=2, page=60, magazine=Redbook, passage=If you're going one or two shades lighter, don't even touch your brows. But if you're making a big change, soften them by tinting them with home haircolor: a lighter shade of brown for blonder shades, a golden shade if you're dyeing your hair red.
    • }}
  • (of a, person) Having blond hair.
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    • Derived terms

    * ash blond/ash blonde * bleached blond/bleached blonde * blondie * blondish * blondism * blondly/blondely * blond metal * blond moment/blonde moment * blondness/blondeness * bottle blond/bottle blonde * dirty blond/dirty blonde * dishwater blond/dishwater blonde * dumb blond/dumb blonde * golden blond/golden blonde * honey blond/honey blonde * peroxide blond/peroxide blonde * platinum blond/platinum blonde * sandy blond/sandy blonde * strawberry blond/strawberry blonde * ultrablond * Venetian blond/Venetian blonde * white blond/white blonde

    See also

    * brunet, brunette *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To color or dye blond
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