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blondly en · ADV

Etymology

From blond + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a blond manner.
   • I got chills, while on Clym's blondly hairy foot, a mechanical beetle with copper pincers crawled amidst tattooed green and yellow crenna roothairs, to disappear under his pants' cuff. 1984, Samuel R. Delany, Carl Freedman, Stars in my pocket like grains of sand, page 85:
   • Calvin's younger, and blondly pretty, brother proved to be a budding backwoods aesthete. 1993, Wright Morris, Writing my life: an autobiography, page 380:
   • The portrait shows Essex's hair waved, almost curled, and dark auburn, darker than the blondly reddish beard, and this might be an accident of pigments unequally deepened by time; but that's improbable. 1969, Booth Tarkington, Some old portraits: a book about art and human beings, page 1:

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