brevet
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
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
Cavalry drew fresh supplies from the hold of the Far West, galloped off under command of a dashing, handsome 37-year-old brevet major general who wore a flowing red tie and had distinguished himself at Gettysburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
The use of brevet jurists was proposed last year by the American Board of Trial Advocates, an association of Western lawyers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was thus the first officer who ever received brevet rank for services performed in the field at the head of a regiment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 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
We’ll be colonels, breveted colonels, every last one of us–Colonel Driscoll, Colonel Grinders, Colonel Brothers and Sisters, Colonel––” “That’s easy,” said Driscoll smiling.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
“D’you know you’ve been breveted to senior field man?”
From Missing Link by Frank Patrick Herbert
Strangely enough, though death has been busy with the officers of the last war, all who were breveted for their services on that occasion, with one or two exceptions, are now alive.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
What with the pilots already breveted, and the élèves, or pupils in the training-schools, there were quite enough of our compatriots to man the dozen airplanes in one escadrille.
From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by James R. (James Rogers) McConnell
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
Was brevetted lieutenant-colonel U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Fredericksburg.
From The Battle of the Big Hole A History of General Gibbon's Engagement with Nez Percés Indians in the Big Hole Valley, Montana, August 9th, 1877. by G. O. Shields
He was prominent in all the operations thence to Cerro Gordo, where, in April, 1847, he was brevetted major.
From America First Patriotic Readings by Jasper Leonidas McBrien
John G. Foster, severely wounded at Molino del Rey, and brevetted captain, was one of the most fearless and reliable men in the service.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Abner Doubleday
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