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Blonde

Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

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Fair 84% connected

Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.

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Fair 84% connected

Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.

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Fairish 84% connected

Tolerably fair.

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Fairish 84% connected

Tolerably fair.

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Flaxen 84% connected

Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread…

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Flaxen 84% connected

Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread…

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Sandy 84% connected

Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.

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Sandy 84% connected

Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.

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Female 76% connected

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

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Complexion 66% connected

The state of being complex; complexity.

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Complexion 66% connected

The state of being complex; complexity.

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Blond 92% connected

Alt. of Blonde

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Aberration noun · 78% connection

The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of su…

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Albino noun · 78% connection

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, a…

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Amber noun · 78% connection

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.

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Black adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of…

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Blee noun · 78% connection

Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.

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Blondness noun · 78% connection

The state of being blond.

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Blue noun · 78% connection

One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear s…

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Color noun · 78% connection

The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.

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Colored adjective · 78% connection

Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.

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Dark adjective · 78% connection

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…

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Delicate adjective · 78% connection

Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.

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Diaphanotype noun · 78% connection

A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.

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Dolly Varden unknown · 78% connection

A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-c…

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Fair-haired adjective · 78% connection

Having fair or light-colored hair.

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Firework noun · 78% connection

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials th…

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Fluorescence noun · 78% connection

That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…

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Foul superl. · 78% connection

Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the…

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Frizette noun · 78% connection

A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

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