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
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
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 was still a substantive captain in the 5th West India regiment, though a lieutenant-colonel by brevet, when he went on half-pay in 1818.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 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
He took part in the later movements under Winfield Scott against the city of Mexico, and was breveted first lieutenant for “gallant and meritorious conduct.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
They, always give him the title with which he had been breveted at the close of the war; but he was known to the younger, generation of his fellow-citizens as the judge.
From The Kentons by William Dean Howells
He distinguished himself in the Mexican War, being breveted captain and major for bravery at Contreras and Churubusco and at Chapultepec respectively.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
He was breveted captain for his gallantry at Cherubusco, and at the end of the war received the rank of full captain, and was ordered with his regiment to California.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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
Is your father—" "Now, captain," interrupted the other—"but heigh! don't the newspapers say you are brevetted?
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
He took part in the Mexican War, and was brevetted Captain for gallant services.
From A History of the Republican Party by George Washington Platt
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
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