Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having dark or brown hair.
- n. A girl or woman with dark or brown hair.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A woman with dark hair and eyes and brown or dark complexion.
- Dark in color; having a brownish or olive tone: said of the complexion.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a woman or girl, having brown or black hair.
- n. A girl or woman with brown or black hair.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person with dark (brown) hair
- adj. marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
Etymologies
- French brunette, feminine of brunet, brown (Wiktionary)
- French, feminine of brunet; see brunet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The complexion of the former class is that which we call a brunette, and the skin is most delicately smooth and soft.”
“Jacqueline Carey's books, when recently released in Japan, were printed with blonde chicks on the cover because apparently in Japan, even being a brunette is inadequate.”
“The Southern-born brunette is giving love a second chance as she watches twenty-five hotties battle it out for her affection.”
“What do you call a brunette and 3 blondes on the streetcorner?”
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“Her nurse, the brunette from the dock, enters with a glass of buttermilk.”
“What do you call a brunette in a room full of blondes?”
“What do you call a brunette between two blondes???”
“The brunette is a comely wench, a bare back rider, a star of the center ring.”
“The blond Darci typically wore a white swimsuit with matching lace skirt, while the brunette was adorned in pink, and redhead in blue.”
“She was a brunette, which is my type, and she looked very sweet.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brunette’.
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franky's Words
formitastic, human resources, cocktail, gravatar, tequila, twitter, moloko, gmail, beeb, mp3, cover art, thumbnail and 184 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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babe
girlie, blonde, brunette, innocent, damsel, bombshell, bomb, sexbomb, coed, bimbo, bitch
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hair apparent
all things hair
shears, bleach, razor, mullet, blonde, redhead, tresses, sideburn, scrunchie, pomade, gel, afro and 12 more...
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Give Me a Head With Hair
blonde, brunette, ginger, titian, redhead, follicle, afro, mullet, dandruff, pomade, bouffant, dreadlocks and 16 more...
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Mellifluous Words
farouche, charivari, rhadamanthine, amaranthine, mellifluous, serviette, luncheonette, vagrant, sorbet, nadir, vanguard, paladin and 76 more...
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vari-ettes
ranchette, vinette, towelette, rosette, septette, silhouette, pirouette, roomette, roulette, omelette, majorette, gazette and 52 more...
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Internationally Known
wunderkind, a la carte, brunette, blitz, passe, genre, du jour, kindergarten, gegenschein, encore, lederhosen, souvenir and 20 more...
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fluttercrafts's Words
create, desire, float, art, grace, writer, brunette, delicious, divine, effleuvia, passion, massage and 87 more...
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B
babble, ballet, beamy, belief, belle, billow, bittersweet, bliss, butterscotch, breathe, buttercup, blur and 38 more...
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IM
i'm a/an
agnostic, passive agressive, brunette, kidult, myope, wacko, misanthrope, grim
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