brunet

American  

[broo-net] / bruˈnɛt /

adjective

1. (especially of a male) brunette.

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noun

1. a person, usually a male, with dark hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.

Other Word Forms

• brunetness noun

Etymology

Origin of brunet

1885–90; < French, equivalent to brun brown + -et -et

Example Sentences

She was 28, a brunet ingénue from English stock, raised in what she has wryly called “the most aristocratic village in the prune belt” of Northern California.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2018

In 2013, he brought on Hansen, a seasoned C.E.O., who is also five-nine and has a neat brunet beard.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Before then, she’d spent the entirety of her 28 years as a brunet.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2017

A: The beginning of my senior year at Rochester University, I pulled into a parking lot, and in front of my car walked a beautiful brunet wearing a black London fog raincoat and high heels.

From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2016

His imagination painted a contest between the Horn Department of the brunet brass band and three or four hundred stampeding mules.

From Lady Luck by Wiley, Hugh