brunette
[broo-net]
- (of hair, eyes, skin, etc.) of a dark color or tone.
- (of a person) having dark hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.
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- a person, especially a female, with such coloration.
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Origin of brunette
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Contemporary Examples
In April, the 19-year-old brunette in an emerald gown was crowned Miss Honduras.
Whether we are fat, skinny, tall, short, blonde, or brunette, should not define us as women.
The tabloid battle between the sweet blonde and the brunette vixen played out like an issue of Betty and Veronica on crack.
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May 1, 2014
There was Blondie on has right and a lovely Italianate brunette on the other side.
A pretty girl with brunette hair, Dima sits curled up in an apartment in Midyat with her mother and her 16-year-old sister, Marie.
Historical Examples
A brunette selects a blonde and a blonde a brunette, as a general rule in matrimony.
Life: Its True GenesisR. W. Wright
Yet it would be unfair to call the brunette beauties of Tanoa savages.
Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)William Delisle Hay
I told him, after consulting you, the story of the letter—of the brunette—everything.
Against OddsLawrence L. Lynch
I had found that the brunette, like myself, was in disguise.
Against OddsLawrence L. Lynch
You have thought too much of the blonde and not enough of the brunette!
Against OddsLawrence L. Lynch
brunette
- a girl or woman with dark brown hair
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- dark brownbrunette hair
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Word Origin
C17: from French, feminine of brunet dark, brownish, from brun brown, of Germanic origin; see brown
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Word Origin and History for brunette
adj.
1660s, from French brunette (masc. brunet), from Old French brunet "brownish, brown-haired, dark-complexioned," fem. diminutive of brun "brown" (12c.), of West Germanic origin (see brown (adj.)). As a noun, "woman of a dark complexion," from 1710. The metathesized form, Old French burnete, is the source of the surname Burnett. Burnete also was used of a wool-dyed cloth of superior quality, originally dark brown.
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