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K.C.B.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Knight Commander of the Bath.


KCB British  

abbreviation

  1. Knight Commander of the Bath (a Brit title)

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It is calculated to make a newspaper man's bosom swell with pride, like Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., riding at anchor in Pinafore.

From Time Magazine Archive

The son of Sir Arthur Blackwood, K.C.B., and Sydney, Duchess of Manchester, he was sent to Canada about 1890 to make his living as a farmer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Churchill ran a broad finger down Britain's army list and halted at the fifth name: General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, K.C.B.,

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Pineapple Poll herself appears and falls helplessly in love with Captain Belaye, an officer who combines the best qualities of Ralph Rackstraw, Captain Corcoran and Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.

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K.C.B., and eldest daughter of Dr. Forster, formerly headmaster of the Norwich Free Grammar School.

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles