BRU
abbreviation
Brunei (international car registration)
BRU
1 Britishabbreviation
bru
2
British
/ bruː /
noun
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The dealer Barbara Gladstone has a branch in Brussels, and the art fair Independent New York opens its Belgian spin-off next month, if the collectors don’t bridle at flying into BRU.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 22, 2016
BRU, an old house-painter who lived in a garret in the same tenement-house as the Coupeaus, where he starved with cold and hunger.
From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by J. G Patterson
He hopes to turn that deficit into a $1.2 billion surplus this year by the blunt and bru tal method of taking money from British pockets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except bo f. a cow, g. s. boin; cu m. a dog, g. s. coin; bru f. the belly, g. s. broinn or bronn.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
So long as Willies bru ther malt, An Robs an Allans spree; Mi Burns’s songs an Burns’s name, Remember’d thay shall be.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
‘And if I bring back a heretic bru to break the heart of the mother, will it not be all the fault of the cruelty of Mademoiselle Victorine?’
From A Modern Telemachus by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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