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- abbreviation Britain
- abbreviation British
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British English
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Examples
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The term Brit is obvious in it’s meaning and I am quite sure people of other white backgrounds will not be called a Brit.
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The "Brit." was a hot place for villains, the gallery accepting none but the highest principles of speech and conduct, and ginger-beer were not too weighty a form of expressing detestation of the more comprehensive breaches of the decalogue.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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The Pavilion, like the "Brit.," had its stock company, and when the leading lady appeared for her Benefit as "Portia," she was not the less applauded for being drunk.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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a halo about his head, for he was on speaking terms with the low comedian of the "Brit.," and, I understood, was permitted upon occasion to pay for
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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Brit., and a most full one in Johnson's History of English Gardening, who, with many collected particulars of Abercrombie, relates the great and continually increasing sale of some of his works.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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Brit., the bitternut hickory, are found along watercourses or in moist places, the first only in the southeastern part of the State and the last throughout.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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Brit., the rice field hickory and H. minima, (Marsh.)
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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Brit., the pignut hickory, is a smaller tree than the preceding, and grows generally on poorer or rockier soil.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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Brit., made on the authority and from the materials of Sir Joseph
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Brit., s.v. MANDEVILLE, JEHAN DE; NICHOLSON in The
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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