名詞 brunette:

1. a person with dark (brown) hair
   同義詞：brunet

形容詞 brunette:

1. marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
   同義詞：brunet

bru.nette

adj.（形容詞）
Having dark or brown hair.
有黑色頭發(fā)的，有褐色頭發(fā)的
n.（名詞）
A girl or woman with dark or brown hair.
黑發(fā)女孩，黑發(fā)女人，褐發(fā)女孩，褐發(fā)女人：具黑色或褐色頭發(fā)的女孩或女人

來(lái)源：
French [feminine of] brunet * see brunet
法語(yǔ) [] brunet的陰性詞 *參見(jiàn) brunet

Brunette was for a long time used to denote a woman having a dark complexion; now it is used chiefly in reference to hair color.The general practice is to use the formbrunette to refer only to women, withbrunet as a less frequently used variant that can be applied as well to men and mixed groups. The distinction, like the one betweenblonde and blond, has been regarded as carrying sexist implications.In this case, however, it is difficult to see how the problem can be easily resolved.It is unlikely thatbrunette could be pressed into service as a neutral term, since the suffix-ette is too closely associated with marked feminine gender. Brunet is theoretically available for both sexes but is rarely applied to men, whose corresponding coloration is typically described simply as .brown..It would, of course, be possible to usebrown for the hair color of both sexes, if only that word could be redeemed from the associations of drabnessthat led to the adoption of the substitutebrunette in the first place. See Usage Note at blond ,-ette
Brunette 過(guò)去很長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)間用來(lái)指膚色黝黑的女人； 現(xiàn)今多用于指頭發(fā)的顏色。通常brunette 只指女人， 而不如其常用的變體brunet 可用于指男人和男女都有的群體。 兩詞的區(qū)別正如blonde 和 blond 的區(qū)別， 被看成帶有性別的含意。即使如此也很難看出如何輕易地解決兩詞之間區(qū)別的這一難題。brunette 不可能被看成一個(gè)中性詞， 因?yàn)楹缶Y-ette 與女性緊密聯(lián)系。 Brunet 從道理上來(lái)說(shuō)適用于男人和女人，但很少用于指男人。 男人相應(yīng)的膚色僅用brown表述即可。當(dāng)然，brown 也可適用于指男女兩性的頭發(fā)顏色， 只要此詞不再與賣(mài)淫聯(lián)系在一起。正是由于這一聯(lián)系brunette 才首先被用作替代詞 參見(jiàn) blond,-ette