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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

"I am returning to the big ice," the skater from Kazan announced on Telegram earlier this month, her formerly brunette hair now streaked with blonde highlights.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 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

“I want a brunette wig. That way I can change my personality.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

Or does he think the same of brunettes?

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017

And, speaking of dark, I knew he had a thing for dark-haired girls because all of his girlfriends had been brunettes.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman


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