brunette的词源

英文词源

brunette

brunette: see brown

brunette (adj.)

1660s, from French brunette (masc. brunet), from Old French brunet "brownish, brown-haired, dark-complexioned," fem. diminutive of brun "brown" (12c.), of West Germanic origin (see brown (adj.)). As a noun, "woman of a dark complexion," from 1710. The metathesized form, Old French burnete, is the source of the surname Burnett. Burnete also was used of a wool-dyed cloth of superior quality, originally dark brown.

中文词源

brunette：深褐色头发的白人女人

brun, 棕褐色，同brown. -ette, 小词后缀。

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