ravenette

noun

Etymology

Blend of raven + Janette, after a nightclub owned by the character called “The Raven”.

1
A raven-haired person, especially a woman.
- The stunning ravenette licked her red lips.
- He was caught off guard by the ravenette leaping into his arms, his wide eyes softening at the sobs reaching his ears.
- The green eyed ravenette grabbed Capgras’ bottle of Powers off the bar, raised it over her head and brought it down with a crash.
2
Of hair, especially of a woman
Of hair, especially of a woman: raven.
- I combed my ravenette hair one hundred times a day so it would gleam when I yanked the boys through the turnstile at the zoo.
- She sees me eyeing her wavy ravenette locks. […] “There’s a small upside to losing your hair to chemo, and it’s getting to try out all different sorts of hair colors and styles.[…]”
- She fit the image of the cold-blooded killer she was, with her long ravenette hair pulled into an intricate braid and her marred dark skin.
3
A fan of the character Janette DuCharme from the Canadian television series Forever…
A fan of the character Janette DuCharme from the Canadian television series Forever Knight.
- It is very Gothic, very romantic and totally wonderful. If you haven't seen it yet, check out Forever Knight. Mina Murray Harker (who will happily tell you why she is a Ravenette)
- In response to Morgan Dhu's comments about the bar shown in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," yes, there are FK fans lurking on atx! Morgan, you must be a Ravenette, yes?
- With a name like Alma, shouldn't you be either a Ravenette or an FoD?

No curated loop yet for ravenette. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA