brunette


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bru·nette

 (bro͞o-nĕt′)
adj.
Having brown hair.
n.
A girl or woman with brown hair.

[French, feminine of brunet; see brunet.]
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brunette

(bruːˈnɛt)
n
a girl or woman with dark brown hair
adj
(Colours) dark brown: brunette hair.
[C17: from French, feminine of brunet dark, brownish, from brun brown, of Germanic origin; see brown]
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bru•nette

(bruˈnɛt)

adj.
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.
n.
3. a person, esp. a female, with such coloration.
[1705–15; < French; feminine of brunet]
bru•nette′ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.brunette - a person with dark (brown) hairbrunette - a person with dark (brown) hair  
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
Adj.1.brunette - marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes; "a brunette beauty"
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Translations
سَمْراء، سَوْداء
tmavovláska
brunette
tummaverikkö
barna nõ
dökkhærî stúlka
brunetė
brunete
brunetka

brunette

[bruːˈnet]
A. Nmorena f, morocha f (LAm), prieta f (Mex)
B. ADJmoreno
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

brunette

[bruːˈnɛt] n(femme f) brune f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

brunette

nBrünette f
adjbrünett
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

brunette

[bruːˈnɛt] nragazza (or donna) bruna
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

brunette

(bruːˈnet) noun
a woman with brown or dark hair. He prefers blondes to brunettes.
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brunet

, brunette
a. trigueño-a, de piel oscura.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
was a demiblonde, there resided dimly in his subconsciousness a conception that she was a brunette. Likewise he had an idea that she was not thin, while there was an absence in his mind of any idea that she was fat.
Sonya was a slender little brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but graceful and muscular arms and neck.
"Oh, you Bill, you," one of them, a buxom young brunette, was calling.
As the talk wandered along, the old lady watched for the right place to drop in a question or two concerning that matter, and when she found it, she said to the blond twin, who was now doing the biographies in his turn while the brunette one rested:
The Princess was the most beautiful brunette in the world; her eyes were large, lively, and sparkling; her looks sweet and modest; her nose was of a just proportion and without a fault; her mouth small, her lips of a vermilion red, and charmingly agreeable symmetry; in a word, all the features of her face were perfectly regular.
They fought between the tables like Titans, and glasses crashed, and men caught their hats up and were knocked down, and a brunette screamed, and a blonde began to sing "Teasing."
Liza Merkalova was a thin brunette, with an Oriental, languid type of face, and--as everyone used to say--exquisite enigmatic eyes.
Was Mother blonde or brunette? Answer all three questions if possible." "(A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last Holidays, or The Characters of Father and Mother compared.
in good sooth, Montalais is properly punished," cried the jeering brunette, still laughing.
A knock and an answer opened it, and Martin found himself shaking hands with Kreis, a handsome brunette man, with dazzling white teeth, a drooping black mustache, and large, flashing black eyes.
Cordelia was a regal brunette with a coronet of midnight hair and duskly flashing eyes.
You see it is not my fault." And Maximilian was patient, and employed himself in mentally contrasting the two girls, -- one fair, with soft languishing eyes, a figure gracefully bending like a weeping willow; the other a brunette, with a fierce and haughty expression, and as straight as a poplar.