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brunette

[broo-net] / bruˈnɛt /


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The “Transamerica” DVD even featured a lenticular cover that transformed Huffman from a standard blonde press shot into a still from the film featuring Bree’s brunette hair and wispy bangs.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

Sarah, do you feel like you can never go back to brunette now?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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

We chanted our mother Cecile’s poem—softly, we thought—until the short brunette stewardess came over and cleared her throat.

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

“I introduced women with shape, short hair, brunettes, brown eyes,” he said in the Modelinia interview.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2013

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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