ash-blond

or ash-blonde

[ ash-blond ]

adjective

1. pale, grayish blond:

   ash-blond hair.

ash blond

noun

1. 1. a very light blond colour
   2. ( as adjective )

      ash-blond hair

2. Also calledash blonde a person whose hair is this colour

Other Words From

• ash blond ash blonde noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ash-blond¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

He noted, too, that her gorgeous ash-blond hair had been carefully "done," piled in high masses above her petulant face.

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Olive Dunleavy was shinily present, her ash-blond hair in a new coiffure.

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Had Jane told her firmly that she had not seen that comb in that ash-blond hair she might have been hypnotized into agreement.

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Within the car, seen through the snow-mist, was a girl of twenty-two or three, with satiny slim features and ash-blond hair.

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She was perhaps forty; her hair was an unconvincing ash-blond; and if her chest was flat, her hips were ponderous.

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