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means A light yellowish hair color (and by extension, someone who has it), typically ranging from pale gold to sandy or ashy tones.

from From French blonde/blond, which came from medieval Latin blundus meaning 'yellow.' Where blundus itself came from is genuinely murky — one theory links it to a Germanic root for 'blended' or 'mixed' color, but no one knows for certain. The word crossed into English around the medieval period, and for a long time it kept its French grammar habit of changing spelling with gender — blond for men, blonde for women — a quirk English speakers still half-follow today, mostly out of inherited habit rather than rule.