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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

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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

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