brune adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •Brunette.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. — 1873 noun1 •A brunette.Oh! scold me, Pop, scold me and make me behave if ever again I bow the knee to a blonde or brune in Roch. — 1907 formsbrunes