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Definition of Brest
1. Noun. A port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France.
Definition of Brest
1. 3d sing.pr. for Bursteth.
2. n. A torus.
Definition of Brest
1. Proper noun. A port city in Brittany, France. ¹
2. Proper noun. A city in Belarus, on the border with Poland. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete spelling of breast) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brest
Literary usage of Brest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Another synod of Ruthenian bishops met at Brest on 24 June, 1593, but avoided
the question of union, and confined itself to depriving Gideon Balaban of the ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"It had been arranged that, while Dorset sought to recover Guyenne, English ships
were to keep the Channel as far as Brest, and the Spaniards the sea thence ..."
3. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"-Beginning of Brest's naval importance. i was organized the navy of Ponant and
is passed making Brest the center of naval is—with Havre and Brouage, ..."
4. Papers Relating to the Treaty of Washington by United States Dept. of State, Geneva Arbitration Tribunal (1872)
"Leaving Bermuda on the 25th of July, the Florida arrived at Brest on the 23d of
August. This part of her history is touched upon lightly and cautiously in ..."
5. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"Comte Louis de Caffarelli, who served in both the French army and navy, held the
naval prefecture at Brest for nine years from July, 1800. ..."
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