brunet
Americanadjective
noun
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Origin of brunet
Example Sentences
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Witherspoon went from blond to brunet to match the singer’s brown locks.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2019
She was 28, a brunet ingénue from English stock, raised in what she has wryly called “the most aristocratic village in the prune belt” of Northern California.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2018
In 2013, he brought on Hansen, a seasoned C.E.O., who is also five-nine and has a neat brunet beard.
From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017
A young, blindfolded, brunet debutante, dressed as if ready for her coming-out party, stretches her arm out to her side, as if trying to find her way.
From Washington Times • Jun. 9, 2016
The hair of the Proto-Egyptian was precisely similar to that of the brunet South European or Iberian people of the present day.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
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