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Bruant

American  
[bry-ahn] / brüˈɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Libéral c1635–1697, French architect.


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Georges Bruant, 1888; Blanc double de Coubert, 1892; Belle Poitevin, 1895, rose-coloured and very fragrant; and the handsome Rose à parfum de l'Hay, 1904, carmine cerise and deliciously scented.

From Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley

He has also signed some fine posters, notably a Bruant which is a masterpiece of its kind.

From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair

If we insisted upon being made the exceptions to the farewell ceremony, and if Bruant would not let us off, could we resent it?

From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

She sings, for instance, songs of Aristide Bruant, songs which he had sung before her, and sung admirably, in his brutal and elaborately careless way.

From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Arthur Symons

To give an account of the “Mirliton” is to tell the story of Bruant, the most popular ballad-writer in France to-day. 

From The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory

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