[
UK
/bɹʌnˈɛt/
]
[ US /bɹuˈnɛt/ ]
[ US /bɹuˈnɛt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
a brunette beauty
NOUN
- a person with dark (brown) hair
How To Use brunette In A Sentence
- ‘We take credit cards,’ chirped the tall curly brunette - the weaker of the two - who was quickly silenced by a withering glance.
- The complexion of the former class is that which we call a brunette, and the skin is most delicately smooth and soft. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
- Innocent blondes, corrupted by wolfish brunettes with mannish haircuts and tight, tight sweaters, stare wide-eyed at the reader.
- She nodded at a pretty brunette and flattened herself against the wall.
- Andy called out, jerking his chin upward in the direction of the tall, slender, much sought-after brunette.
- Broadly - very broadly - speaking, blondes can carry brighter, more orangey reds, while brunettes tend to inhabit the plummier depths. Times, Sunday Times
- Holding her hand was some brunette dressed in a mannish chalk-stripe suit and a matching pillbox hat with a veil as fine as smoke. Asimov's Science Fiction
- I had met women of all shapes and sizes; blondes, brunettes and redheads, some bubbly, some serious, some supremely confident, others slightly hesitant.
- Two competing ideal female body types developed: the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.
- It's the brunette with the pince-nez from earlier on.