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Definition of Brunette
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 Brunette
1. n. A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.
Definition of Brunette
1. Adjective. Of a woman or girl, having brown or black hair. ¹
2. Noun. A girl or woman with brown or black hair. ¹
3. Noun. A white brunette with dark eyes and a relatively dark or olive complexion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brunette
1. a dark-haired female [n -S]
Medical Definition of Brunette
1. A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. Having a dark tint. Origin: F. Brunet, brunette, brownish, dim. Of brun, brune, brown, fr. OHG. Brn. See Brown. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brunette
Literary usage of Brunette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Masques and Mummers: Essays on the Theatre of Here and Now by Charles Frederic Nirdlinger (1899)
"They knew a brunette in those days. The record is interesting chiefly as ...
Eastern sagacity attributed to the brunette the same prowess of mischief with ..."
2. The American Stud Book by Sanders Dewees Bruce (1889)
"brunette (late Omega.), bm, foaled 1876: bred by Dr. WR Tomp- kins. ...
brunette (Bygone), bm, foaled 1877; bred and owned by General WG Harding, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"The dark hazel eyes of the lovely brunette," where very dark eyes were intended.
Lichfield. .... brunette ..."
4. Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations by Henry Theophilus Finck (1887)
"brunette VERSUS BLONDE Thus we have evidence showing that during the epoch
preceding the general prevalence of Romantic Love, the blond type was considered ..."
5. Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins by Mortimer Collins (1886)
"BLONDE AND brunette. THERE'S a beautiful blonde for whom I have been mad in my
... There is also a rare brunette, Years ago beloved by me ; Purple suns that ..."
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