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brest
/bɹɛst/
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What does brest mean?
proper noun
- A port city in the department of Finistère, and the region of Brittany, France.
- A city in Belarus, on the border with Poland.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (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.
The Brest fleet that slipped away, is thought on its progress to Nova Scotia.
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The Hawk and Chiltern have gone to Brest to lay shore ends.
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.
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.