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
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
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
He served in Virginia to the end of the war, attaining the brevet ranks of major-general of volunteers and brigadier-general of regulars.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 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
In the Civil War he was colonel of the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was breveted a general.
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street
A drummer-boy at fourteen in the War of the Rebellion, a private at sixteen and eighteen, he had subsequently been breveted for conspicuous military service.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
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 was breveted first lieutenant at Molinos del Rey, and captain at Chapultepec, for gallantry in the field.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
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
For his conduct at Chapultepec he was later brevetted a captain, to date from that battle, September 13, 1847.
From Ulysses S. Grant by Walter Allen
He was a brave soldier and was twice brevetted for gallantry and meritorious conduct on the battlefields of the Mexican War.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur
At the close of the war he was brevetted a Major General of Volunteers.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
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