brune
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Her hair was a brown which hardly escaped being ruddy, and her skin matched it, lacking alike the dusky warmth of the brune and the purity of the blonde.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
He's hans' so small, ma'amzelle, lak you's, mais brune.
From The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
He had long ago ceased to care for la belle brune de Bordeaux, the beautiful girl who had enchained his early affections and thereby become a bar to his boundless ambition.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
There is another tower, commonly called "la tour brune," which adjoins the ancient bishop's palace, and dates from at least a century before the main body of the church.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
But presently some defect presented itself, it sounded less apt, more suited to a blue-eyed daughter of a viking than to one so brune as she.
From The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel by Edgar Saltus
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