Question: where did the term dishwater blonde come from

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text: Roman fresco from Pompeii showing a Maenad in silk dress , 1st century AD Ancient Roman fresco ( detail ) featuring Perseus and the head of Medusa , Stabiae , Italy , 1st century AD . Fresco depicting a seated woman , from the Villa Arianna at Stabiae , 1st century AD Fresco of a man holding a papyrus roll , Pompeii , Italy , 1st century AD Heracles and Omphale , Pompeian Fourth Style ( 45 -- 79 AD ) Roman fresco of a blond maiden reading a text , Pompeian Fourth Style ( 60 - 79 AD ) , Pompeii Mosaic of Aphrodite from Pompeii Achilles and Agamemnon , from a fresco of Pompeii , 1st century AD Dye worker 's shop of Veranius Hypsaeus , fresco from Pompeii , 1st century AD A maenad holding a cupid , Pompeii , 1st century AD The so - called `` Venus in a bikini '' , from the House of Julia Felix , Pompeii , Italy actually depicts the Roman goddess Aphrodite as she is about to untie her sandal , with a small Eros squatting beneath her left arm Ancient Roman bust of Antinous , made during the reign of Hadrian ( 117 -- 138 AD ) , National Archaeological Museum in Athens . Remnants of a Roman bust of a youth with a blond beard , perhaps depicting Roman emperor Commodus ( r . 177 -- 192 ) , National Archaeological Museum , Athens Polychrome marble statue depicting the goddess Tyche holding the infant Plutus in her arms , 2nd century AD , Istanbul Archaeological Museum Ancient Roman statue of Isis , in the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna ; first half of the 2nd century AD , found in Naples , Italy ; made out of black and white marble . Marble table support adorned by a group including Dionysos , Pan and a Satyr ; Dionysos holds a rhyton in the shape of a panther ; traces of red and yellow colour are preserved on the hair of the figures and the branches ; from an Asia Minor workshop , AD 170 -- 180 , National Archaeological Museum , Athens , Greece Bust of Tiberius Julius Sauromates II ( d . 210 AD ) , ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom in Roman Crimea , one of Rome 's client states Asclepius ( center ) arrives in Kos and is greeted by Hippocrates ( left ) and a citizen ( right ) , mosaic , 2nd -- 3rd century AD Ludovisi Gaul 2nd - century AD Roman copy of a 3rd - century BC Hellenistic original from Pergamon , Palazzo Altemps A blond man in a Roman fresco from Klagenfurt , Austria , Landesmuseum für Kärnten A mosaic from Tusculum depicting Athena , 3rd century AD Roman mosaic depicting a feminine personification , from the Boathouse of Psyche in Daphne ( suburb of Antioch ) , beginning of 3rd century AD , Louvre Museum A boy holding a platter of fruits and what may be a bucket of crabs , in a kitchen with fish and squid , on the June panel from a mosaic depicting the months ( 3rd century ) A mosaic of young boys hunting from the Villa Romana del Casale , Roman Sicily , 4th century AD A mosaic depicting a game hunt , from the Villa Romana del Casale , Roman Sicily , 4th century AD A Roman fresco depicting the goddess Diana hunting , 4th century AD , from the Via Livenza hypogeum in Rome Mosaic depicting Odysseus , from La Olmeda , Spain , late 4th -- 5th centuries AD Mosaic of a princess of Skyros ( detail from a larger scene of the Iliad showing Achilles and Odysseus ) from the villa of La Olmeda , Spain , late 4th -- 5th centuries AD Achilles being adored by princesses of Skyros , a scene from the Iliad where Odysseus ( Ulysses ) discovers him dressed as a woman and hiding among the princesses at the royal court of Skyros . A late Roman mosaic from La Olmeda , Spain , 4th -- 5th centuries AD Color