bleached blond

bleached blond adjective: of a (usually pale) blond color obtained using bleach.

Adjective

bleached blond (comparative more bleached blond, superlative most bleached blond)

Of a (usually pale) blond color obtained using bleach.
- The woman's naked body lay across the bed as if it had been posed, the world-famous face thrown to the side in profile, the luxurious bleached blond hair flowing back over pale white shoulders, leaving her back and the long beautiful expanse of her shapely hips and legs fully exposed.1990, George Bernau, chapter 1, in Candle in the Wind, Warner Books, page 3
- She bent over and started to undo Little Jonathan’s diaper that, incidentally, sorely needed it. I could smell it from the door. At any rate, as she lowered her head a lock of bleached blond hair fell across her face.2000, Tamar Myers, chapter 27, in The Hand that Rocks the Ladle: a Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipes, Signet Books, page 223

bleached blond (countable and uncountable, plural bleached blonds)

A (usually pale) blond color obtained using bleach
- 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...1967, Leslie Garrett, chapter 4, in The Beasts, Pyramid Books, page 48
- 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.2000, Leah Steward, chapter 8, in Body of a Girl, Viking Press, page 118
A person with light blond hair obtained by bleaching.
- His wife, surely, she thought, as she tried to gather a more complete picture of the woman, a bleached blond with a fair figure.1995, Warren Adler, chapter 4, in Never Too Late for Love, Homestead Publishing, page 91
- 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.1996, Anthony R. Mills, chapter 1, in Drake's Bay, Fithian Press, page 12

She saw the guy in the driver’s seat—bleached blond mullet, navy-blue baseball cap, shades, cigarette, a mountain range of acne on his cheeks.2014, James Patterson, Michael White, chapter 35, in Private Down Under, Vision, page 101:
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.2014, Jennifer Mortimer, chapter 5, in Trilemma, Oceanview Publishing, page 23:
Renata, who took her cues from the bleached blond, rather than the other way around, was too experienced a flautist to rehearse further.2003, Marilyn Todd, chapter 30, in Second Act, Severn House Publishers, page 214:

What does bleached blond mean?: Bleached blond means of a (usually pale) blond color obtained using bleach.
How do you use bleached blond in a sentence?: She saw the guy in the driver’s seat—bleached blond mullet, navy-blue baseball cap, shades, cigarette, a mountain range of acne on his cheeks.
What part of speech is bleached blond?: Bleached blond can be an adjective or a noun.

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