noirette

noun

1. (rare)A black-haired person, especially a woman.

   “For a time I was with a Noirette from North Africa, rebellious and intemperate, her frizzy hair shooting out as if her head had exploded in one of those stop-action photographs taken at a thousandth.”

   “In the classical lexicon of blonde, brunette, and redhead, why has no distinction been made between women with brown and black hair? Or, consulting my high-school French, have women with black hair been dimissed? Noirette?”

   “Definitely not Los Angeles -- where brunettes, noirettes, orangettes and Germanic blondes seem to thrive.”

   “Since Jen despised constant work, and since she rarely excluded Amy in her escapades, it was impossible for the noirette to hole up in her room studying all the time.”

adj

1. (not-comparable, rare)Especially of a woman: black-haired.

   “And now, in the moment I should have focused on you, I found myself recalling the night I chased a pale blonde down an alley, as she complained to her voluptuous, noirette friend what a cheapskate I was.”

   “The noirette woman smiled and motioned to the couch behind Alice.”

   ““You seem distracted, my lady,” Elsie noted. / Emma focused. “No, not particularly,” she lied. / Her noirette maid raised an eyebrow. “I have just spent the last hour tying and untying your hair,” she said levelly.”