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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Etymology
Origin of brunette
1705–15; < French; feminine of brunet
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And when I started dressing again, to go out, I would put on my favorite clothes from when I was brunette.
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
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
A perfume atomizer sits atop her brunette head like a grand hat.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
Or does he think the same of brunettes?
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
"And she knew I preferred brunettes," Auguste adds.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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