brune
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Female figure, a big brune; young man reclining on his elbow; old man drinking.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
When I had climbed it and looked out over endless flats to the sails under the brune of the horizon I understood the Fens.
From Hills and the Sea by Hilaire Belloc
The brune goddess shaped ironic lips: "Chauffeurs', I presoom?"
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
Her hair was a brown which hardly escaped being ruddy, and her skin matched it, lacking alike the dusky warmth of the brune and the purity of the blonde.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
Musset produced a certain "Ballade à la Lune" which began— C'était dans la nuit brune Sur le clocher jauni, La lune Comme un point sur un i!
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various
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