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Definition of Breton

1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language).

Definition of Breton

1. a. Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.

Definition of Breton

1. Noun. A person from Brittany. ¹

2. Proper noun. The Celtic language of Brittany. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Brittany. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Breton

1. a type of hat [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Breton

Literary usage of Breton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"During the next three centuries, however, ia consequence of political events which cannot be enumerated here, we find French encroaching rapidly on Breton, ..."

2. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1876)
"... raised and sent from this government on the expedition against his Majesty's enemies at Cape Breton, &c., and order that he be commissioned accordingly. ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"His stories, most of which reflect Breton life, are often true tales told him by the peasants; and all have the qualities of reality and religious feeling. ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"Breton- -BEAUMONT lines of Fulke Greville's in the same metre and on no very ... Nicholas Breton was an Elizabethan primitive, who went on publishing fresh ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"Cape Breton is severed from the mainland only by a narrow gut, and the île de ... At the time of Sir Wilb'am Alexander's grant, which included Cape Breton, ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1899)
"In the fourteenth century the mouth of the Adour river existed here, and prior to that period Cap Breton was an important seaport, which gave its name to ..."

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