Bretagne
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In Paris, instead of a hotel by Notre Dame or the Eiffel Tower, look near the Canal Saint Martin, Rue De Bretagne, or Gobelins for more affordable hotels.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
Take the time Little-Siebold, the apple researcher, helped identify a nearly 200-year-old Drap d’Or de Bretagne apple tree growing on Maine’s Verona Island—the only known example of the ancient apple living in North America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
“A gentleman came up and started petting Bretagne and said, ‘You know, I don’t really like dogs,’” she said.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2021
So, in March 1904 he and new wife Elizabeth board the SS La Bretagne at Le Havre in France bound for New York.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2020
Like the "pardons" and "benedictions" of Finist�re and other parts of Bretagne, the peasants of the Loiret have a quaint custom which bespeaks a long handed-down superstition.
From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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