blue-rinse

[bloo-rins]

adjective

1. of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women.

   the blue-rinse matinee audience.

blue rinse

noun

1. a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour

adjective

1. denoting or typifying an elderly, well-groomed, socially active, and comparatively wealthy woman

Word History and Origins

Origin of blue-rinse¹

First recorded in 1975–80; so called from the bluish tinge produced by certain rinses used on gray hair