The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: redheads, because redheads are always fun

[Bamagan]

So I'm curious, what exactly is a brunette? Is it someone with brown hair, (what I've always thought) or anyone with sufficiently dark hair?

I've encountered many who think the later and so I wonder what most people think.

I believe it originally was used to refer to any people with dark hair and complexions. Or technically, brunette just meant that type of woman, as the term (in French) for a brown-haired man was brunet (in the same way that blond refers to a yellow-haired man, and blonde to a woman with said hair color). I think I remember reading that the term was borrowed from wool manufacturers, so it might have been pejorative at some point.