blondeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French blonde f. See blond.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /blɒnd/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /blɑnd/
  • 韻: -ɒnd

名詞

blonde (複数形 blondes)

1. Alternative form of blond (person of fair hair). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)
2. Alternative form of blond (pale golden brown color).

   blonde:  

3. (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.

   Coordinate term: redhead

   • 2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making (page 63)

     Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (または shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.

派生語

形容詞

blonde (comparative blonder または more blonde, superlative blondest または most blonde)

1. (especially of a woman) Alternative form of blond
   • 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water

     So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisper blonde luxuriance of August.

2. (especially of a woman, offensive) Stupid, ignorant, naive.
   • 2005, Nancy Bartholomew, Lethally Blonde, Silhouette →ISBN, page 8:

     Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!”

   • 2014, Aviva Drescher, Leggy Blonde: A Memoir (Simon かつ Schuster, →ISBN):

     I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.

   • 2003, Bennett Fairorth, The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily (iUniverse, →ISBN), page 201:

     “She was so blonde, she studied for a blood test, when she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, 'Airport Left,' she turned around and went home, when she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.

使用する際の注意点

See the usage notes in the entry blond.