Idle Question

[lightofdaye]

Luna's hair is often described as dirty blonde. But does she have 'dirty blonde' hair, or dirty 'blonde hair'? ie) blonde hair that is unclean or hair that is a dirty blonde colour.

I'd thought the former and seen it at least one fic, where Harry cleans it for her. But recently it occured to me that dirty blonde is description people do use for hair colour. So *shrug*

Comments

[lightofdaye]

That was the take in the fic I read.

I looked up dirty blonde on the internet and possibly its more of an american term?

[nutmeg-44.livejournal.com]

It think it's an American thing, all the different shade designations for hair.