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brest

/bɹɛst/

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What does brest mean?

proper noun

  1. A port city in the department of Finistère, and the region of Brittany, France.
  2. A city in Belarus, on the border with Poland.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of breast.

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IPA pronunciation

/bɹɛst/

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After conferring with him, I was furnished with letters of introduction to the directing officers at Cherbourg, Brest, Rochefort, Indret, and Toulon.
James NasmythJames Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyProject Gutenberg ebook #476
The Brest fleet that slipped away, is thought on its progress to Nova Scotia.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610
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The Hawk and Chiltern have gone to Brest to lay shore ends.
Robert Louis StevensonMemoir of Fleeming JenkinProject Gutenberg ebook #698
The yerde is bet that bowen wole and winde Than that that brest; and therfor I yow rede To folwen him that so wel can yow lede.
Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CriseydeProject Gutenberg ebook #257
Fournier and Duret published the history of a galley slave at Brest in whose stomach were found 52 pieces of money, their combined weight being one pound, 10 1/4 ounces.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747