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Brunet   /brunˈɛt/   Listen
noun
Brunette, brunet  n.  A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.


adjective
Brunette, brunet  adj.  
1.
Being or having dark-colored skin and hair; contrasted with blond. (Narrower terms: adust, sunburned burned brown by the sun; black, brown; black-haired, dark-haired; browned, suntanned, tanned; grizzled, roan; nutbrown)


Brunette, brunet  adj.  Having a dark tint.





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"Brunet" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Brunet have already endeavored to persuade his reverence, my lord; but your Eminence knows with what impatience Father Rodin received this advice, and Dr. Baleinier did not venture to persist, for fear ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... [Footnote 8: Brunet, 's.v.' "Breton de la Martiniere," gives the title of the work: 'Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoire'. Par ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
... Tuileries narrowly escaped being crushed by the crowd; but they were adopted. This fashion tyrannized over the ladies of Europe for half a century. At the peace of 1815, for a year, the long waists of the English were a standing jest; all Paris went to see Pothier and Brunet in Les Anglaises pour rire; but in 1816 and 1817 the belt of the Frenchwoman, which in 1814 cut her across the bosom, gradually descended ...
— Albert Savarus • Honore de Balzac
... will hear with delight, That we're going, all three, to see BRUNET to-night A laugh will revive me—and kind Mr. Cox (Do you know him?) has ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... his own theories now stood in bloody array against him. Was it not he who had framed the indictments against General Custine for having failed to subdue the cities of the south? against General Westerman and Brunet and Beauharnais for having failed ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... dit Brunet, et la plus ancienne que l'on ait de cette version latine de Marco Polo, faite par Pipino, vers 1320. Elle est imprimee avec les memes caracteres, que l'Itinerarium de Joan. de Mandeville, c'est-a-dire par Gerard de Leeu, ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... we know nothing. Meanwhile, some of the practical citizens of Oxford wish to level the Jews' Mound, and to "utilise" the gravel of which it is largely composed. There is nothing to be said against this economic project which could interest or affect the persons who entertain it. M. Brunet-Debaines' illustration shows the mill on a site which must be as old as the tower. Did the citizens bring their corn to be tolled and ...
— Oxford • Andrew Lang
... of this edition is doubted by Brunet, according to Vicaire. This ancient description corresponds substantially to that of Vicaire of the following edition of 1498 which Vicaire proclaims to be the first dated Apicius edition. It is interesting to note, ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius
... literature Brunet's Manual[27] stands pre-eminent in its popularity. It has held its own since 1810, when it was first published in three volumes, demy octavo. Graesse's Tresor[28] is less known out of Germany, but it also ...
— How to Form a Library, 2nd ed • H. B. Wheatley


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