bronde

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of brunette +‎ blonde or brown + blonde, popularised from circa 2010.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bronde (countable and uncountable, plural brondes) (informal)

  1. (uncountable) A hair colour intermediate between brown and blond.
    Coordinate term: blorange
    • 2017, "Hair Colouring", The Times of Oman 100, Summer 2016, page 33:
      What happens when beach blonde meets a rich brunette? You get a 'bronde'. A colour that is somewhere between the two extremes, bronde brings in the best of both worlds.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bronde.
  2. (countable) A person having this hair colour.
    I'm a bronde.

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Adjective

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bronde (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Having or relating to a bronde colour.
    • 2015, “Celeb Hair We Love”, in Canberra Weekly Magazine[1], page 55:
      Singer Taylor Swift changes up her long lob with an added fringe, in a bronde tone at the Billboard Music Awards on 17 May.
    • 2021, Jenna Engel, quoted in Veronica Boodhan, "Finding The Perfect Match", Salon, May 2021, page 35:
      Olive skin tones look great with a bronde colour, so mixing a chocolate brown with honey highlights would be a great option.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bronde.

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