ash-blond

or ash-blonde

[ ash-blond ]

adjective
  1. pale, grayish blond: ash-blond hair.

Origin of ash-blond

1
First recorded in 1900–05

Other words from ash-blond

  • ash blond, ash blonde, noun

Words Nearby ash-blond

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How to use ash-blond in a sentence

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

    The Winning Clue | James Hay, Jr.
  • Olive Dunleavy was shinily present, her ash-blond hair in a new coiffure.

    The Trail of the Hawk | Sinclair Lewis
  • Had Jane told her firmly that she had not seen that comb in that ash-blond hair she might have been hypnotized into agreement.

    The Copy-Cat and Other Stories | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Within the car, seen through the snow-mist, was a girl of twenty-two or three, with satiny slim features and ash-blond hair.

    The Trail of the Hawk | Sinclair Lewis
  • She was perhaps forty; her hair was an unconvincing ash-blond; and if her chest was flat, her hips were ponderous.

    Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis

British Dictionary definitions for ash blond

ash blond

noun
    • a very light blond colour

    • (as adjective): ash-blond hair

  1. Also called: ash blonde a person whose hair is this colour

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