brunette

American  

[broo-net] / bruˈnɛt /

adjective

1. (of hair, eyes, skin, etc.) of a dark color or tone.

2. (of a person) having dark hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.

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noun

• brunettes
  plural

1. a person, especially a female, with such coloration.

brunette British  

/ bruːˈnɛt /

noun

1. a girl or woman with dark brown hair

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adjective

1. dark brown

   brunette hair

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• brunetteness
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• brunettes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of brunette

1705–15; < French; feminine of brunet

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Example Sentences

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brunette brunettes

Seven portraits give Anne red or red-brown hair and five show a brunette, but the pigments in the paint may have degraded over time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

"I am returning to the big ice," the skater from Kazan announced on Telegram earlier this month, her formerly brunette hair now streaked with blonde highlights.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

The sketch also featured Tina Fey playing Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem with genuinely funny jokes: “I’m the rarest type of person in Washington, D.C.: A brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025

Norwood isn’t real — the brunette who appears in a comedy sketch on her Instagram page is in fact a computer-generated composite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

The brunette from earlier, Becky, is called to the stage and she performs Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness.”

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

This ongoing trend of obsessing over everything fall has to offer was first made popular by a viral photo of two brunettes with matching hairdos, makeup and suede booties.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

Taylore told me the first thing she noticed was that “he was blond,” and she normally goes for brunettes.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022

“So far we’ve been able to find it for brunettes but we can’t get there for blondes and that’s the only chemical that I use. So we’re working on it.”

From Fox News ● Aug. 9, 2019

His penchant for brunettes - Ava Gardner, Jane Russell, Yvonne De Carlo, Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue and Jean Peters, among others - could have stymied a witness at a police lineup.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2018

And, speaking of dark, I knew he had a thing for dark-haired girls because all of his girlfriends had been brunettes.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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