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
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
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
In years gone by I had known him in pleasant army service, part of the time as a brevet lieutenant of his company.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
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
He was breveted Major by President Polk “for gallant and meritorious conduct at Chereubusco” and a little later was made Lieutenant Colonel “for gallant and conspicuous bravery at Chapaultepec.”
From Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town by Goolrick, John T.
In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Eleventh Ohio Volunteers, and was breveted major for meritorious services.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
He was breveted first lieutenant for gallantry at Molino del Rey and captain for gallantry at Chapultepec.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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 Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)
A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting."
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
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
He had been twice brevetted for gallantry—once for services against the Seminole Indians in Florida, and once for the battle of Molino del Rey in Mexico, where he was badly wounded.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner
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 Shields, G. O.
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