bronde
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of brunette + blonde or brown + blonde, popularised from circa 2010.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bronde (countable and uncountable, plural brondes) (informal)
- (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.
- (countable) A person having this hair colour.
- I'm a bronde.
Synonyms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bronde (not comparable)
- (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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