brevet
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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Etymology
Origin of brevet
1325–75; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French brievet. See brief, -et
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I hereby grant you the rank of brevet colonel in the army of the level-headed, Pacific Command.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2019
Rolling in after 407km, we got our brevet cards stamped and tucked into warming bowls of homemade daal.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2018
In his own absence from Washington, Johnson has increasingly relied on the Defense Secretary to act as unofficial brevet deputy President.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general.
From Time Magazine Archive
Upon the foregoing information your committee beg leave to submit to the consideration of Congress the following resolutions, That a brevet commission of Lieutenant Colonel be granted to M. Louis Ethis de Corney.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) by Various
By the time the Big Parade was over, Hero York had been lionized, publicized, feted, decorated and breveted "the one-man army."
From Time Magazine Archive
“D’you know you’ve been breveted to senior field man?”
From Missing Link by Frank Patrick Herbert
He was wounded at Niagara, and again dangerously at Erie; was breveted a major-general, July 25, 1814; resigned in 1820, and settled in Louisiana, which he represented in Congress, 1835-1839.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
He took part in the later movements under Winfield Scott against the city of Mexico, and was breveted first lieutenant for “gallant and meritorious conduct.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
Bonneville became a major in 1845, and was breveted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco during the Mexican War.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting."
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
After the war’s end, Otis was brevetted with the rank of lieutenant colonel by his commander Rutherford B. Hayes, who commended Otis for his “gallantry and meritorious services.”
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2016
Into the breach sped an army of energetic amateurs who were soon brevetted with official status.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1814, for "gallant conduct in the defense of Fort Erie."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
In 1848, he was brevetted as Major-General for "meritorious conduct, particularly in the performance of his duties in the prosecution of the war with Mexico."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
Is your father—" "Now, captain," interrupted the other—"but heigh! don't the newspapers say you are brevetted?
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
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