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brunette

[broo-net] / bruˈnɛt /


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Seven portraits give Anne red or red-brown hair and five show a brunette, but the pigments in the paint may have degraded over time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

It shows Yuriy, serious and composed besides Valeria, a brunette with an infectious smile who resembles her mother Lyudmyla.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

The sketch also featured Tina Fey playing Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem with genuinely funny jokes: “I’m the rarest type of person in Washington, D.C.: A brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025

Inside the car, detectives found a brunette wig and a rubber mask resembling a white male that the law enforcement source said looked realistic enough to be “movie quality.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

Instead, the short brunette stewardess wagged her finger at us.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Taylore told me the first thing she noticed was that “he was blond,” and she normally goes for brunettes.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022

“So far we’ve been able to find it for brunettes but we can’t get there for blondes and that’s the only chemical that I use. So we’re working on it.”

From Fox News ● Aug. 9, 2019

His penchant for brunettes - Ava Gardner, Jane Russell, Yvonne De Carlo, Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue and Jean Peters, among others - could have stymied a witness at a police lineup.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2018

And my female friends are somehow almost all brunettes and I think they all know how I feel, even though we’ve never discussed this openly before.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2013

"And she knew I preferred brunettes," Auguste adds.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton


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