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Definition of Brunet
1. Adjective. Marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes. "A brunette beauty"
Attributes: Complexion, Skin Color, Skin Colour
Similar to: Adust, Bronzed, Suntanned, Tanned, Brown, Browned, Dark, Black-haired, Brown-haired, Dark-haired, Dark-skinned, Dusky, Swart, Swarthy, Grizzled, Nutbrown
Antonyms: Blond
2. Noun. A person with dark (brown) hair.
Definition of Brunet
1. Adjective. (rare) Of a man's or boy's hair, brown or black hair. ¹
2. Adjective. (rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or black hair. ¹
3. Noun. (rare) A man or boy with brown or black hair. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brunet
1. a dark-haired male [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brunet
Literary usage of Brunet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together with Numerous Anecdotes by Charles Anthony Shriner (1918)
"brunet, who was at this time a truly comic actor, performing in some piece I do
not remember, was eating walnuts, the shells of which, after a little ..."
2. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society by Bibliographical Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"[brunet 131; Aug. 8.] [Not in Brunei.] [brunet 132.] [brunet 135.] [Brunei 137.]
[brunet 138.] [brunet 139.] [Nol in brunet.] [brunet 140.] [brunet 141. ..."
3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"It is possible that this "belt" of Huxley's of dark-white and brown-skinned men,
this race of brunet-brown folk, ultimately spread even farther than India ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"The second part of the new edition of brunet, which occupies upwards of 900
closely printed columns, extends from Bibliothek to ..."
5. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"14, where brunet de Pri'sle (24) reads " Polyclitus "). ... It is quite certain
that we cannot, with brunet de Presle (24), ..."
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