brunet

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Definition

noun a person with dark (brown) hair
adjective marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes

From French brunet. Compare also Middle English brunet, burnet (“brown”), from Old French brunet, which is the same word.

To the Jurats of Bordeaux.--[Published from the original among the archives of the town of Bordeaux, M. Gustave Brunet in the Bulletin du Bibliophile, July 1839.] — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne
M. Brunet said the last word on the subject in his Researches in 1852, and in the important article in the fifth edition of his Manuel du Libraire (iv., 1863, pp. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
Kitty felt no such restraint, and looked like a blissful little gypsy, with her brunet prettiness set off by a dashing costume of cardinal and cream color and every hair on her head curled in a Merry Pecksniffian crop, for youth was her strong point, and she much enjoyed the fact that she had been engaged three times before she was nineteen. — Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins", Louisa May Alcott

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