brunette
adjective
(of hair, eyes, skin, etc.) of a dark color or tone.
brunettes
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pluralof brunette.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This ongoing trend of obsessing over everything fall has to offer was first made popular by a viral photo of two brunettes with matching hairdos, makeup and suede booties.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023
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
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
