1. 1棕髮女子、褐髮的女生

    A brunette is a woman or girl with dark brown hair. That is the careful, older meaning. In everyday talk people sometimes stretch it to any brown hair, not only dark brown; they almost never mean black hair, though sometimes lump those together. The usual pair in English is blonde for light hair and brunette for brown, and both words have long been used of women. There is a masculine form brunet (no extra -te), but English speakers hardly use it; “a brunette man” still sounds wrong to many ears. The word was borrowed from French: brun means brown, and brunette is the feminine form of brunet. It can feel a little like magazine language, or a little old-fashioned; a lot of people now just say “she has brown hair.”

組成Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”).

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  • brunetthe rarer masculine form, from the same French word

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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Brunettename

  • 1

    A surname from French.

brunetteadj/bɹuˈnɛt/

  • 1

    Of a brown color or tone.

  • 2

    datedOf a brown color or tone.

    • Frosting and Tipping of your hair is for winter hi-fashion. It adds hi-lights to any brunette or brownette hair, softens the looks and adds body to the hair.
    • Hey, kiddies, Christopher Reeves,^([sic]) who has dark brunette locks whilst winging through the air as “Superman,” has light brownette hair in person.
  • 3

    Having brown hair.

  • 4

    datedHaving brown hair.

    • The survey asked for preferences in smoking and drinking, and whether they preferred blonde, brunette, or red-haired or brownette women as dates.
    • MAX FACTOR ★ HOLLYWOOD has created these luxurious Gift Sets in Color Harmony shades for blonde, brownette, brunette or red-head types. Every woman is interested in the gift which will reveal her individual loveliness.

brunettenoun/bɹuˈnɛt/

  • 1

    A person, especially female, with brown hair.

    • And M. [Henri-François-Alphonse] Esquiros, in describing the Dutch generally, speaks of beauties both blondes and brunettes, ‘for black hair is not uncommon in the Netherlands.’ These words seem to imply that black hair does not preponderate; and, if not, there must be a marked difference between the Dutch and the English. Here again is confirmation of the opinion that the modern English are somewhat more dark-haired than the ancient Saxons.
    • The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.
  • 2

    datedA person, especially female, with brown hair.

    • FOR THE BLONDE. . . […] FOR THE BROWNETTE. . . […] FOR THE REDETTE. . . […] FOR THE BRUNETTE. . . whose coloring is accented with nationally known Barbara Gould beauty aids— […]
    • The models were very attractive indeed (blondes, brunettes, brownettes but no redettes) but on the slim side.

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