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brunet

[broo-net] Origin

bru·net

[broo-net]
adjective
1.
(especially of a male) brunette.
noun
2.
a person, usually a male, with dark hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.

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Brunet is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1885–90; < French, equivalent to brun brown + -et -et

bru·net·ness, noun
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brunet
"dark-complexioned person," 1887, from Fr. brunet, dim. of brun "brown," which is from a Gmc. source (see brown).
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