platinum blonde
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- noun
- /ˈplætɪn blɒnd/
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rubio platino
- She was a plump woman in her late fifties, platinum blonde and decked out in a floral pattern business suit.
- platinum blonde hair
- dyed her hair platinum blonde
But I didn't have a single platinum blonde in our whole dahlia area so who knows.
- But I didn't have a single platinum blonde in our whole dahlia area so who knows.
Examples
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A student staggered up, towing a platinum blonde wearing greased-on jeans and a black leather jacket.
Fiction book (1993) -
Very little gray stood out in her platinum blonde hair.
Fiction book (1998) -
When we split up, she dyed her hair platinum blonde and bought a new car.
Academic text (2004) -
Right after this all began, I bleached my hair to platinum blonde.
Blog text (2) -
Debbie Harry also started a new trend: platinum blonde hair worn with bangs.
Blog text (16) -
In the 1930s, Jean Harlow was known as much for her wit as for her platinum blonde hair and voluptuous figure.
Blog text (5) -
All a good photographer needs is a black background, one bright light, the lovely platinum blonde for a subject—and the result is as striking a picture as ever came out of Hollywood.
Academic text (2017) -
Her platinum blonde hair glistened under the bright lights of the salon.
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After bleaching her hair, she was thrilled to achieve the perfect shade of platinum blonde.
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The actress was famous for her striking platinum blonde hair, which was often the talk of fashion magazines.
How Pale
Surface Forms
Morphology
platinum + blonde
The adjective 'platinum' evokes the very pale, silvery color of the metal and 'blonde' denotes a light hair color; together in the adjective+noun composition a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer a very pale, silvery-blond hair shade. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common descriptive metaphor (color of a metal applied to hair) rather than an idiom, so the meaning is directly derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Platinum blonde compares very pale blonde hair to the metal platinum. Because people bleach hair to reach this icy, silvery shade, it means 'a very pale, silvery-blond hair color'.