brunette

American  

[broo-net] / bruˈnɛt /

adjective

1. (of hair, eyes, skin, etc.) of a dark color or tone.

2. (of a person) having dark hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.

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noun

• brunettes
  plural

1. a person, especially a female, with such coloration.

brunette British  

/ bruːˈnɛt /

noun

1. a girl or woman with dark brown hair

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adjective

1. dark brown

   brunette hair

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• brunetteness
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• brunettes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of brunette

1705–15; < French; feminine of brunet

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Example Sentences

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brunette brunettes

The “Transamerica” DVD even featured a lenticular cover that transformed Huffman from a standard blonde press shot into a still from the film featuring Bree’s brunette hair and wispy bangs.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

"I am returning to the big ice," the skater from Kazan announced on Telegram earlier this month, her formerly brunette hair now streaked with blonde highlights.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 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

I am almost afraid to tell the little brunette that I am going away, and when I return we will be far from here; we will never see one another again.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

She now plays a somewhat wider range of characters — shrewd blondes, guileless brunettes — and she struggles less.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2023

“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

The 36 models represented the American mosaic: ivory-skinned redheads, blue-eyed blondes, honey-toned and ebony-skinned African Americans, and sun-kissed brunettes.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2015

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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