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There is a blonde type to me more irresistibly lovely than all the rest of the women who come under the "preferred" classification.
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Taken into English as platina (1750), it took its modern form (with element ending -ium) in 1812, at the time the names of elements were being regularized.Īs a grayish-white color (similar to that of the metal) it is attested by 1923 especially as a shade of blond hair, it is attested by 1927 (in platinum blonde "woman with platinum-blonde hair " Jean Harlow, famously associated with the label, starred in a popular movie of that name in 1931). It was first obtained from Spanish colonies in Mexico and Colombia, brought to Europe in 1735, and identified as an element 1741. The metal looks like silver, and the Spaniards at first thought it an inferior sort of silver, hence the name platina. Metallic element, 1812, Modern Latin, altered from earlier platina, from Spanish platina "platinum," diminutive of plata "silver," from Old French plate or Old Provençal plata "sheet of metal" (see plate (n.)).