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ash-blonde

ash-blonde

1 4.2
Very light pale blond hair with a slight gray or silver color
  • adjective
  • /æʃ blɒnd/
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  • I use my Brow Zings set every morning, and it perks up my mess of a morning face and transforms my naturally ash blonde brows into a beefier, more wholesome offering.
  • ash-blonde hair

I dyed my hair using one of the L'Oreal Casting Creme gloss colours which was like a doc blonde colour or it was called like ash blonde or something.

Examples

  • So the first one that I'm going to be using is ash blonde because when you're thickening A brow, you don't want to go darker because it can, you don't want to like grab your marks.

  • Just as I was wondering if they had arrived by ship or by plane, a problem seemed to have developed, for the white-frocked attendant with her ash-blonde wig had delivered bad news.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Mother twisted a strand of her ash-blonde hair around her finger and put it in her mouth.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Smiling back, the ash-blonde receptionist nods.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • And then I also got a ash blonde Anastasia brow Wiz.

  • Her long brown tresses had been trimmed to shoulder length and bleached ash blonde.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • She has long, ash-blonde hair and wears an abundance of rings and bracelets.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Her hair was a quiet ash blonde discreetly tinted by one of the top salons in Florence.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • A well-fed guy with odd-looking hair—ash blonde, possibly dyed—didn't look as if he had ever done manual labor.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The actress sported a stunning ash-blonde hairstyle that complemented her fair complexion.

Synonyms

blond
vsash-blonde
176 1.0

Having light-colored hair

has paler hair with a slight grayish silvery cast rather than yellow tones
platinum blonde
vsash-blonde
1 4.0

Very pale, almost white blond hair often made by bleaching

has similar pale hair but with only a slight grayish silvery tint
towheaded
vsash-blonde
1 8.1

Having very light blond hair that looks almost white

has pale hair but includes a subtle grayish silvery undertone
light-haired
vsash-blonde
1 2.6

Having pale hair like blond or light brown

has very pale hair with a faint grayish silvery tone
platinum-blonde
vsash-blonde
3.9

Hair that is very light and almost white

has paler hair that shows a faint grayish silvery shade

Antonyms

20 1.5

A person with dark hair like black or brown

3 2.1

Having dark brown or black hair

How Light

ash-blonde
1 4.2
blond
1 1.0
blondish
2 2.7
dark-haired
20 1.5

Surface Forms

ash-blonde positive

Morphology

ash-blonde = ash + blonde (transparent) = ash + blonde

A straightforward compound where 'ash' modifies 'blonde' to indicate a pale, slightly grayish tint of blonde hair, which learners can readily infer.

Etymology

Ash-blonde combines ash, meaning 'the grey powder left after burning wood', and blonde, meaning 'light, fair hair', so it describes pale hair with a cool, slightly grey or silvery tint.