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Brest   /brɛst/   Listen
Brest

noun
1.
A port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France.





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"Brest" Quotes from Famous Books



... Calhoun made his announcement about the battle of Brest and the English victory, a triumphant smile lighted his flushed face, and under his heavy grey brows his eyes ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... here - (may I be allowed to add?) - here sits this noble Roman, a father like myself, and like myself the slave of duty. Last you have me - Baron Henri-Frederic de Latour de Main de la Tonnerre de Brest, the man of the world and the man of delicacy. I find you all - permit me the expression - gravelled. A marriage and an obstacle. Now, what is marriage? The union of two souls, and, wha is possibly more romantic, the fusion of two dowries. What is an obstacle? the devil. And this obstacle? ...
— The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson
... affairs, permitted and encouraged by England and France, our distinguished minister at Paris was justified in saying to the Government of Louis Napoleon on the reception of the Confederate steamer Georgia at Brest, in language which though but the bare recital of fact was of itself the keenest ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... cam an arrowe hastely Forthe off a myghtte wane; Hit hathe strekene the yerle Duglas In at the brest bane. ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)


Words linked to "Brest" :   port, French Republic, metropolis, urban center, France, city


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