noiretteEtymologyFrom French noir (“black”) + -ette, after brunette. Compare French and Middle French noirette.noirette means especially of a woman: black-haired. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.adjEspecially 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.”nounA 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.”