What's the difference between blonde and brunette?

Blonde


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.
  • (n.) A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes.
  • (n.) A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (2) With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not seen before.
  • (3) Three blonde d'Aquitaine calves (one male and two females) about four months old, exhibited skin lesions just after birth, the site and nature of which suggested photosensitisation.
  • (4) Our ConservativeHome poll of party members shows Theresa May now leads the blond bombshell in the stakes to be the next leader.
  • (5) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
  • (6) The court heard that MP responded to Nimmo's message of "Dumb blonde bitch" with the message "That's dumb Dr blonde bitch to you".
  • (7) She would look 10 tons prettier with it natural, and the blonding just makes me think of Miley Cyrus.
  • (8) Both black and blond tobacco CSCs proved to interact synergistically with 2-aminoanthracene mutagenicity.
  • (9) The size of my posterior is directly related to the content and credibility of the stories I'm reporting on for this network.Those wise words of yours from 1986 are still ringing in my ears: "That's why you don't see blonde newsreaders," you explained patiently.
  • (10) Two of them were right mingers, but the blonde was OK, but when they started laughing at me, I thought, I ain't bovvered, so I paid for their drinks 'an headed back to the hotel.
  • (11) "The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blond-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.
  • (12) 42 mins: Lovely play by Dindane on the right wing, jinking inside and leaving Coentrao (who has terrible golden-toasted blond highlights from 1986) on his backside.
  • (13) The following signs and symptoms indicated her condition to be homocystinuria: blond hair with deep blue eyes, macrocytic anemia, factor VII deficit (51%), strong positive Brandt's reaction, cystine homocystine in the plasma, and presence of homocystine, cystathionine, and methionine in the urine.
  • (14) That is the question confronting Reese Witherspoon , the actor best known for the Legally Blonde comedies and an Oscar-winning turn as June Carter Cash in the 2005 film Walk the Line.
  • (15) One identified a blonde woman, smiling as she sold peanuts in paper cones to the rafters, as her sister – alive and well in Cuba, she said.
  • (16) From Tory philosopher Phillip Blond 's attacks on "individualism", to Tory MP Jesse Norman's criticism of monopolistic " crony capitalism ", to Ferdinand Mount – once head of Thatcher's Downing Street policy unit – worrying about the concentration of wealth among " the new few ", there is strengthening disquiet at some of the forces the 80s set in motion.
  • (17) Pictures of the young Depardieu in a good light suggest a rugged, brooding, if not classically good-looking man with a squared chin and mop of blonde hair.
  • (18) In both versions, the sniper turns out to be a beautiful blonde cellist who has previously caught Bond's eye, and whom he declines to kill.
  • (19) There are bouquets and photographs, that famous Freddie Starr front page framed on the wall, a large blond-wood desk upon which lie a guide to St Lucia, a letter from Boodles the jeweller, and a book cover, which I read upside down: Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman.
  • (20) This year international fashion magazine Numero used blonde-haired, blue-eyed Ondria Hardin in an editorial entitled African Queen.

Brunette


Definition:

  • (a.) A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.
  • (a.) Having a dark tint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For much of the 80s, Young was a bona fide movie star, a poised brunette with a fragile edge.
  • (2) Unutma Meni (Don't Forget Me) features the 33-year-old brunette under the stage name GooGoosha - apparently her father's name for her - cavorting in a cartoon wonderland where she travels to a secluded castle and a tropical island in a limousine that floats through the air.
  • (3) "Don't be a swan, Anthony," cautioned serial humper Tyler, appalled at his brother's inability to decide whether he'd most like to bang Poppy (dumb, brunette) or Jodie (dumber, blonde).
  • (4) In assessing psychomotor development, the Brunette Lezine Scale, standardized for Mexican children, was used.
  • (5) It's like asking Marilyn Monroe if she'd consider going back to brunette.
  • (6) The vanillin:anthocyanidin ratio suggested that tannins were polymerized to the same degree in the Brunette and Minica varieties, both in the methanol and acidic methanol extracts.
  • (7) My hair has grown back brunette – I was blonde before."
  • (8) She was 17 when they met, she's 21 now, a tiny brunette and pretty as a doll.
  • (9) But they will care if it’s the wrong plan, and they will care if they feel they don’t have a stake in it.” Other notable moments: A recent article recapping Hodges's first 100 days was published in the Tribune’s Sunday paper alongside a photo of a brunette woman smiling with a glass of champagne in her hand.
  • (10) His wealth started to grow when he became an independent producer on My Favourite Brunette in 1947.
  • (11) It adds: “Slinky brunette Liz, or Elizabeth Louise, to give her full royal-sounding Christian names, looks as good in them as slinky brunette Kate.
  • (12) Diets with tannin-rich hulls (varieties Brunette and Minica) caused a large reduction in the digestion of amino acids, starch and lipid compared with the control diet mainly due to inactivation of digestive enzymes by the formation of tannin-enzyme complexes in the digestive tract.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump arrived just in time to do the monologue where a gag about how Trump actually thought plus-sized brunette cast member Aidy Bryant was Rosie O’Donnell was moderately amusing, as was Trump standing cheek to impressive jowl with two of his impersonators from the show, current cast member Taran Killam and alumnus Darrell Hammond, who did fake-Trump duties back in 2004 when he last hosted the show, at the height of his The Apprentice resurgence.
  • (14) My daughter is brunette, so they didn't take her," she laughs.
  • (15) I find this immensely reassuring when some of my own semen slips through the vent on to the face of a well-built brunette woman who has just swallowed the semen of a slight Caucasian man of about 157lb.
  • (16) There was Reeva the brunette law graduate, linguist and feminist, a devout Christian due to deliver a speech against gender violence on the day she died.
  • (17) In his day, only softies sat around listening to people’s telephone calls; a real agent would have killed a couple of commies and drunk cocktails with a damned handsome brunette before a desk Johnny could say “Broadsword to Danny Boy”.
  • (18) A generation of postwar cinephiles rhapsodised over her earthy voluptuousness, her hourglass figure, her "bedroom eyes", her cascading brunette tresses.
  • (19) When I landed in my chair, on camera, and was introduced to the show's hosts – a typical trident of blonde, brunette and affable chump – it became clear that, in spite of the show's stated left-leaning inclination, the frequency they were actually broadcasting was the shrill, white noise of dumb current affairs.
  • (20) All patients were examined with the Amiel Tison and Grenier test (neurologic evaluation), Gesell test (psychological) and Brunette-Lezine test (Psychomotor scale).

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