blackette

plural blackettes

1. rareA black-haired person, especially a woman.

   It’s a sure thing you won’t find a sunnier, cheerier color. And it is beautiful for blondes or brunettes or blackettes—even redheads.

   1949 April 20, Pat White, “Teen Pan Alley: Play Tricks with Flowers – Yellow Tops Spring Colors”, in Evening Courier, sports final edition, volume 65, number 276, Camden, N.J., →OCLC, page 20, column 1

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   “O Judy!” the fair-haired Miss exclaimed, “Your black hair looks lovely!” and “O Madeline!” the raven-tressed one replied, “You’re a beautiful blond!” And sure enough Judy is and Madeline is. Brown-haired Miss Stell, attending school at Denton, is the blackette, and black-haired Miss Finch, a cosmetologist at Norman, is the blond.

   1961 April 13, Frances C. Imon, “Letting the Chat Out of the Bag”, in Frances C. Imon, editor, The Southeast Oklahoman, volume XLI, number 15, Hugo, Okla.: Ennis M. DeWeese, →OCLC, page 2, column 5

   The list [of sexiest women] has also caused consternation because only three of the top 10 are blonde, and only one, Caprice, might be regarded as dizzy. The other two, Joanna Lumley and Gwyneth Paltrow, are very definitely serious blondes. The top three are long-haired brunettes, blackettes actually, with brunette Liz Hurley trotting along in Gucci mules at number four.

   2000 November 12, Aine O’Connor, “Beauty reveals its new darker Corr”, in Sunday Independent, volume 95, number 45, Dublin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 1

   She's a great strong female role model, and she's rather nice looking to boot. Well, I always love blackettes (I use this to distinguish women with black hair :o)

   2002 September 17, StainlessSteelRat, “Given a choice...”, in alt.fan.blade-runner (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Feb 2026

   Maybe it's because I suspect that one reason a blonde was cast instead of the original brunette (blackette?) was to point out to the audience "Look! This is the heroine!"... I could be wrong, of course.

   2003 May 8, Ulrich Schreitmueller, “Can't Get Rid of Horror”, in alt.horror (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Feb 2026

   Synonyms: noirette