Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Brittany or its people, language, or culture.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Brittany.
- noun A person of Breton ancestry.
- noun The Celtic language of Brittany.
- André,French poet and literary theorist. He began to write after World War I, at first linking himself with Dadaism but breaking with that movement to write the first manifesto of surrealism (1924).
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to Brittany or Bretagne, a former province in northwestern France, or to the language of its people.
- noun A native of Brittany.
- noun The native language of Brittany; Armoric (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person from
Brittany . - proper noun The
Celtic language ofBrittany . - adjective Of or pertaining to
Brittany .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Celtic language of Brittany
- noun a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nunez continued, saying hundreds of active and inactive wells exist in Breton Sound, Black Bay and Bay Eloi.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain Susan Buchanan 2010
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Nunez continued, saying hundreds of active and inactive wells exist in Breton Sound, Black Bay and Bay Eloi.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain Susan Buchanan 2010
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Nunez continued, saying hundreds of active and inactive wells exist in Breton Sound, Black Bay and Bay Eloi.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain Susan Buchanan 2010
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Nunez continued, saying hundreds of active and inactive wells exist in Breton Sound, Black Bay and Bay Eloi.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain Susan Buchanan 2010
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The marquis sat at the head of the table, and behind his chair stood his old servant Yvon, dressed in Breton mourning-costume in memory of his defunct mistress; that is to say, in blue, black, and yellow.
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This threat, pronounced in Breton, was especially impressive, and how he came by the two ill-assorted names I cannot imagine, for he was nearly as ignorant of books as his flock.
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Virginie Demont-Breton is hardly less distinguished in art than her illustrious father.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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This also goes for Otherworlders: for instance, when I was creating names and bits of language for the korrigans, fairy-like beings found in Breton folklore, for my novel, ‘In Hollow Lands’, I used Breton itself for them, but a chopped-up, strangely inverted Breton, which expresses the Otherworlders’ strange nature, whereas the human characters used real Breton.
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In France, for example, where the official govt. policy is to unify the country linguistically, you cannot (or could not, perhaps it’s been changed recently) send a letter addresses in Breton, even in Brittany.
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[It is also necessary to point out that Renan in this essay applies the name Breton both to the Bretons proper, i.e. the inhabitants of Brittany, and to the British members of the Celtic race.
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