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brunette, n. and a.
(bruːˈnɛt, ‖ brynɛt)
Also 8 brunett.
[a. F. brunette ‘a nut-browne girle’ (Cotgr.), fem. of brunet, dim. of brun brown.]
A. n.
a. A girl or woman of a dark complexion or with brown hair.
1713Guardian No. 109 (1756) II. 108 Your fair women..thought of this fashion to insult the Olives and the Brunetts. 1796J. Owen Trav. Europe II. 438 My landlady..is a very pretty brunette. 1847Barham Ingol. Leg. (1877) 12 Whether the ladies there are short or tall, Brunettes or blondes. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede 45 His mother, a beautiful brunette. 1908G. Wodnil Brunette or Blonde 4 What shade her hair?.. Brunettes they are witty, I have heard say. 1965T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) i. 9 A pregnant brunette walks in off the street wearing black shorts.
b. A variety of the satinette pigeon.
1879L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 174 Brunettes are lighter Satinettes. 1891R. Woods Pigeon-Culture 138.
B. adj. Of dark complexion, brown-haired; nut-brown. Also absol. the colour.
1712Henley in Spect. No. 396 You will excuse a Remark which this gentleman's Passion for the Brunette has suggested to a Brother Theorist. 1752Sir H. Beaumont Crito 11 Raphael's most charming Madonna is a brunette Beauty. 1815Hist. J. Decastro I. 180 Her complexion..cleared up into a fine brunette. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon i. v. 32 The Indian Stock..skin brunette rather than black. 1881G. Allen Anglo-Sax. Brit. 56 The nation which resulted..being sometimes blonde, sometimes brunette.
Hence bruˈnetteness (rare).
1839Fraser's Mag. XIX. 75 Praising..the pretty brunetteness of a young lily-forced thing. |