platinum blond
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- noun
- /ˈplætɪn blɒnd/
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rubio platino
- Our heroes had platinum blond hair and twenty-seven-inch biceps, but you knew who was good and who was evil, who was changing over to the other side, and who was changing back.
- platinum blond hair
Examples
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She wears an oversized black turtleneck sweater, slacks, and a plain scarf tied around her platinum blond hair, which she removes slowly.
Fiction book (2000) -
Marlene was not her real name—she had platinum blond hair and coffee-colored skin, slept with men at a reasonably successful escort agency, and came home at night aggrieved by her profession.
Fiction book (1994) -
You know that platinum blond in the flower dress?
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Platinum blond hair flowed about her shoulders.
Fiction book (1999) -
Probably accompanied by... a black gentleman with closely cropped platinum blond hair and a mustache.
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She pulls the sun visor down to arrange her platinum blond wig in the mirror and put on fresh lipstick.
Fiction book (1990) -
Big gunky black eyelashes, electric-blue eye shadow, pointy outthrust breasts, and a lot of platinum-blond phony-looking hair.
Academic text (2006) -
Alice sat behind the counter on a barstool, her hands in her lap, her black jeans and black blouse contrasting sharply with her fair skin and platinum-blond hair cut short like a man's.
Fiction book (1994) -
They sang songs, they paged through fashion magazines, and they once even bleached their hair with temporary dye, transforming themselves into mother-daughter platinum-blond starlets for one night only.
Fiction book (2000) -
She was beautiful, with thick platinum blond hair and the kind of eyes that promised paradise.
Synonyms
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A person with light-colored hair
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Very pale, almost white blond hair often made by bleaching
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A person whose hair is dyed or bleached to look blonde rather than naturally blonde
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A person, often a woman, whose hair is bleached very light blonde
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A person with light yellow or pale gold hair
A person who makes their hair very light by bleaching it with peroxide
How Pale
Surface Forms
Morphology
platinum + blond
The meaning 'a very pale silvery blond' is directly derivable from combining 'platinum' (associated with a very pale, silvery color) and 'blond' (a pale hair color). This adjective+noun composition follows normal English descriptive patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand the MWE.
Etymology
Platinum blond may come from comparing very pale hair to the shiny metal platinum, and blond shows it refers to hair. So it means a person with 'very pale, silvery' hair, often 'bleached' to create that colour.