Citations:dirty blond

Noun: "a dark shade of blond, bordering on light brown"

 * 1953 — Gore Vidal (as Edgar Box), Death Before Bedtime, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (2011), ISBN 9780307741431, page 9:
 * Her hair was a dirty blond, worn long, and her eyebrows and eyelashes were black, naturally black, and the brows arched.
 * 1986 — Robin Cook, Mindbend, Signet (1986), ISBN 0451141083, page 63:
 * Her disheveled hair was a dirty blond.
 * 2003 — Anita Doreen Diggs, A Mighty Love, Thorndike Press (2004), ISBN 9780786266968:
 * His hair was a dirty blond, and he had bright blue eyes that twinkled as he made his sales pitch.
 * 2005 — Bertrice Small, Lara, Harlequin (2005), ISBN 9780373776382, page 485:
 * Elin's hair was a dirty blond, and she looked enviously at Lara's beautiful tresses.
 * 2009 — William W. Johnstone (with J. A. Johnstone), Savage Territory, Pinnacle Books (2009), ISBN 9780786020003, page 40:
 * His hair was a dirty blond, and the skin on his face had a blotch of red, whether from a birthmark or a burn scar, nobody knew.

Noun: "a person with dark blond hair"

 * 1979 — James Baldwin, Just Above My Head, Dell Books (1979), ISBN 9780440147770, page 418:
 * The one on our side of the street was a dirty blond, with heavy lips, and narrow blue eyes, he wore a brown leather jacket, and khaki pants and scuffed brown pumps.
 * 1997 — Sherril Jaffe, Ground Rules: What I Learned My Daughter's Fifteenth Year, Kondansha International (1997), ISBN 9781568361727, page 4:
 * "Everyone on my side of the family is a dirty blond. She gets it from her father — which you might not see since he has responded to recent events in our family by going gray."
 * 2010 — Andrea Lankford, Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks, FalconGuides (2010), ISBN 9780762752638, page 58:
 * Her ponytail bouncing to the music, swinging her hips to dodge the splatter, the dirty blond with the hazel eyes had to be the cutest thing that ever hit the recycle stand in front of the Yosemite General Store — even if she did smell like Garbage.
 * 2010 — Kevin Sylvester, Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders, Simon & Schuster (2010), ISBN 9781442446045, page 194:
 * All the hairs had been red. Larry was a dirty blond. To be really sure, Nakamura would need a hair taken directly from Neil's head.
 * 2010 — S. L. Wright, Demon Underground, Roc (2010), ISBN 9781101445631, page 174:
 * I turned and walked away, gradually transforming myself until I was a dirty blond with a rabbity face.

Adjective: "of a dark blond colour/color bordering on light brown"

 * 1987 — Legs McNeil, "What, Me Worry?", Spin, November/December 1987:
 * The camera cuts to a shot of a weird-looking guy dressed in a dirty blond wig, striped bell-bottoms, and huge black platform shoes.
 * 2005 — Rick Riordan, Mission Road, Bantam Dell (2006), ISBN 9780553583267, page 127:
 * When I'd known her before, she'd been a ten-year-old kid with a dirty blond ponytail, a shrill voice and painter's pants decorated with Magic Markers.
 * 2005 — Lisa Silverthorne, The Sound of Angels, Wildside Press (2005), ISBN 0809556065, page 131:
 * Turner sat beside him, smug as he fingered his dirty blond goatee.
 * 2009 — Anne Easter Smith, The King's Grace, Touchstone (2009), ISBN 9781416550457, page 447:
 * He clucked his tongue and shook his dirty blond head as he hurried towards Grace.
 * 2011 — Michael J. Lando, Broken Dignity, iUniverse (2011), ISBN 9781462024858, page 28:
 * For the day's look, she settled on a dirty blond wig.