Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest France on an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. Its large sheltered harbor was built in 1631 by Cardinal Richelieu as a naval base.
- A city of southwest Belarus on the Bug River near the Polish border. It was the site (1596) of a synod of Eastern Orthodox church leaders who broke with Constantinople and entered into communion with the Roman Catholic Church, thereby establishing the Eastern Catholic churches. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a separate peace treaty between Russia and the German coalition in World War I, was signed here on March 3, 1918.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
breast . - noun An obsolete variant of
burst . - noun An obsolete spelling of
breast . - noun In architecture, a torus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete for Bursteth.
- noun (Arch.), obsolete A torus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A port city in
Brittany ,France . - proper noun A city in
Belarus , on the border withPoland .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France
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The Paris Brest is a ring of choux pastry, the same as you would use for a cream puff, that is filled with a whipped cream or mousse filling.
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The Paris Brest is a ring of choux pastry, the same as you would use for a cream puff, that is filled with a whipped cream or mousse filling.
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Both governments set representatives to the Peace Conference negotiations in Brest-Litovsk.
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It received the first salute by a foreign naval power, February 14th, 1778, in Brest Roads when the "Ranger" sailed through the French fleet.
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From the said Port of the Islettes vnto another called Brest, the circuit is about ten leagues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The chemistry between De Niro and Grodin, a solid and smart script by George Gallo and ideally understated direction by Martin Brest.
Midnight Run 2 Really Happening; De Niro Returning | /Film 2010
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I would be happy if he returned, even Martin Brest.
Brett Ratner Directing Beverly Hills Cop IV With Eddie Murphy « FirstShowing.net 2008
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We think and talk of nothing here but Brest, which is universally supposed to be the object of our great expedition.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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There are no skyscrapers in Brest, that is to say, there are no tall office buildings there, although the city is an important business point.
In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France Edward Alva Trueblood
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Well sheltered by its trees and refreshed by the sea breezes, it commands a fine view over the new "port de commerce," and the whole extent of the harbour of Brest, which is capable of containing 500 ships of the line, and is, with the exception of those of Rio Janeiro and
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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