brune
brune adjective: brunette.
Adjective
brune (not comparable)
- Brunette.
- By-the-way, we haven’t yet described our favorite Nettie. We will leave details to the reader’s imagination, and only say that she was neither blonde or brune, but a dangerous mixture of both, and able to wear pink or blue with impunity, and look bewitching in either.1867 January, Daisy Ventnor [pseudonym; Jeanie Gould], “‘Only a Private’”, in Peterson’s Magazine, volume LI, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa., page 67, column 1
- When I read of Helen and Cleopatra and Lucretia, and all the beauties of old times, it was always with the notion that each one, blonde or brune, must have looked like Katie Stuart.1873, W[illiam] C[owper] Prime, “Sunday Morning and Evening”, in I Go A-Fishing, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 100
Noun
brune (plural brunes)
- A brunette.
- This conclusion is dangerous in the extreme; for fashion, and the love of display are two of the most dangerous enemies to woman’s empire, By their imperious laws, the blond, and the brune, the blooming girl, the finished woman, and the widow un peu passee, are all compelled to wear the same...1828 September 22, “Female Dress”, in The Opera Glass. Devoted to the Fine Arts, Literature, and the Drama., volume I, number 3, page 18, column 1
- Yes, I like Sunshine; it’s such fun to hear her talk. And you seem to like that dark-eyed sister of hers—eh, old boy? Well, she’s a very handsome girl, I grant you, but she’s too stately for me; besides, I don’t care for your brunes; tall women haven’t, generally, much fun in them.1861, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “Our Corps’ Friends and Foes; or, How Randolph Trapped a Sunbeam, and I Turned a Medium”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XLIX, London: Chapman and Hall...
Proper noun capitalized: Brune
Brune (plural Brunes)
- A surname.
Examples of brune in a sentence
- Was Cleopatra blonde or brune, by the way?1877 April 14, “Edged Tools”, in Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information and Amusement, volume XXXVIII, number 1773...
- We quarrelled, alas! six months ago.” / “Blonde or brune?” anxiously inquired the man of law. / “Blonde, of course,” I replied firmly—I am proud of my taste.1896 December, Alfred Slade, “[The Editor’s Scrap-Book.] My Poetry and the Police.”, in The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for...
- I didn’t know whether you were tall or short, blonde or brune.1900 June, Elmore Elliott Peake, “The Captain of the ‘Aphrodite’”, in George Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly...
- After the show had trouped I met an awfully nice girl--she was neither blonde nor brune, rather betwixt and between, but a corking looker.1907 June, George V[ere] Hobart, Ikey’s Letters to His Father, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Company, page 44:
Forms of brune
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brunes |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Brunes |
Origin of brune
Borrowed from French brune.
Questions about brune
- What does brune mean?
- Brune means brunette.
- How do you use brune in a sentence?
- Was Cleopatra blonde or brune, by the way?
- What part of speech is brune?
- Brune can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
Words near brune in the dictionary
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