Brune
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Brune is an adjective meaning (uncommon) Brunette.
Meaning
(uncommon) Brunette.
More Meanings
- (uncommon) A brunette.
Example Sentences
I had never seen you then, not even your picture. I didn’t know whether you were tall or short, blonde or brune.
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.
“[…] Lord Quallinghame, how do you think I should look as Cleopatra? Only fancy what gorgeous colouring you could get out of such a costume! Was Cleopatra blonde or brune, by the way? Not that it matters”—[…]
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.
Word Forms
- brunes
Related Words
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