Definitions
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- noun a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay
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Examples
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Is he still playing cricket & renovating properties in Bretagne?
petite americaine 2008
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The northwest corner of France, that promontory which we now call Bretagne, with a part of Normandy adjoining it, formed another island; while to the southeast of it lay the central plateau of France.
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The Bretagne was my ship; it was white with blue stripes along the side and had a graceful bow ..
whoar.co.nz 2009
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Cyfeirir yma at Lydaw draddodiadol, hynny yw cynhwyswyd yr ardal dde-ddwyreinol, lle y mae Naoned (Nantes), dinas fwyaf Llydaw, er nad yw'r ardal honno'n rhan o'r rhanbarth gweinyddol a elwir 'Bretagne' gan lywodraeth Ffrainc.
Blogiadur.com 2009
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Evans's only win in the 2011 Tour was on the fourth stage, which ended in a short climb up to the Mur de Bretagne in western France.
Evans Above: Aussie Clinches Tour Win John W. Miller 2011
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A few years later, I took a 5-week tour of France, alone, by train, from one end (Bretagne, Normandy) to the other (St Jean-de-Luz, Lourdes, Narbonne, Nice).
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Applies to Scots, irish, and god knows, the Bretagne.
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Last Sunday, the French championship was run without radios and again it was very significant that the guy who won, Dimitri Champion was from a small Brittany team (Bretagne-Schuller) and he was in the breakaway with one of the Francaise des Jeux riders, and that rider didn't know that his teammate was coming up to catch them.
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Meanwhile, the country – the Paris magazine describes it scrupulously as Grande Bretagne, though Amis is happier with Angleterre – is infused with "moral decrepitude".
Cursing one's homeland before fleeing overseas, Martin Amis, is a cliche 2011
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Yes, great celtic "cousinage" between the Welsh and les Bretons de Bretagne!
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