
It is really one of my favorite dictionaries, the
Longman Advanced American Dictionary. Among its great features are the Thesaurus inserts, which explain the slightly different meanings of so-called synonyms. Under “H,” for instance, the user can learn more about the variety of words used to describe hair color:
fair or
blonde means yellow or very light of color,
strawberry blonde indicates a light red-blonde, and a
towhead is someone with very blonde hair. Yet, the entry for
blonde tells the user that it is another spelling of blond, used when talking about a woman. The avid dictionary user thus concludes that there are no male strawberry blondes, and only women are real towheads. Don’t we dumb blondes love that!
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