brunette
Americanadjective
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(of hair, eyes, skin, etc.) of a dark color or tone.
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(of a person) having dark hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.
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brunettes
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noun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of brunette
1705–15; < French; feminine of brunet
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Sarah, do you feel like you can never go back to brunette now?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
It shows Yuriy, serious and composed besides Valeria, a brunette with an infectious smile who resembles her mother Lyudmyla.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
ChatGPT, perhaps drawing on data showing that there are far more dark-haired people in the world than blondes, decided to make her a brunette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
"Visconti wanted me brunette with long hair. Fellini wanted me blonde," Cardinale said.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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 my female friends are somehow almost all brunettes and I think they all know how I feel, even though we’ve never discussed this openly before.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2013
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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