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▪ I. blondine, a. rare—1. [a. F. blondin, -e, It. biondino.] Diminutive of blond.
1866Carlyle Remin., E. Irving 265 The milky, smaller blondine figure..was Emerson [Tennent]. ▪ II. blondine U.S.|blɒnˈdiːn| [f. blond a. + -ine4.] a. A bleach for the hair. b. A woman with hair made blonde by bleaching. Also attrib. Hence as v., to bleach the hair with blondine; also blondining vbl. n., blondined ppl. a.
1888in Amer. Speech (1960) XXXV. 267 Blondine, a preparation for dying the hair a blond color. Blondining, dyeing the hair by the application of blondine. 1890S. J. Duncan Social Departure xxxvii. 349 A fair woman, passée, blondined, in widow's weeds, with red eyes. 1894in G. Langford Alias O. Henry (1957) 256 She [sc. the New Woman] wears shirts and ties, and either cuts her hair short or blondines it. 1908S. Ford Side-Stepping with Shorty vi. 95 ‘There, now!’ says the blondine. 1909F. B. Calhoun Miss Minerva 73 Jimmy..returned with a big bottle of a powerful ‘blondine’ in one hand. 1920S. Lewis Main Street xxv. 312 Swell dame with blondine hair? 1957V. Kehoe Technique Film & T.V. Make-Up vi. 85 Hair should be darkened or blondeened if gray is present. |