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noirettes

noirettes is the plural of noirette.

Meaning of noirette

Noun

noirette (plural noirettes)

  1. (rare) A black-haired person, especially a woman.
    • For a time I was with a Noirette from North Africa, rebellious and intemperate, her frizzy hair shooting out as if her head had exploded in one of those stop-action photographs taken at a thousandth.1974, Elia Kazan, chapter III, in The Understudy: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, →OCLC, page 411
    Synonyms:
    blackette

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Questions about noirettes

What is noirettes the plural of?
Noirettes is the plural of noirette.

Words near noirettes in the dictionary

  1. noints
  2. noious
  3. noir
  4. noirest
  5. noirette
  6. noirettes
  7. noirish
  8. noirishly
  9. noirishness
  10. noirs
  11. NOIs

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