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
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
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
Amongst the many candidates for an employment so certain to insure the fortune of its possessor, Major Barrington, then a brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, was chosen.
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles 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
On the 1st of July 1844 he was breveted, and on the 18th of June 1846 commissioned second lieutenant.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
In 1864 he was ordered to the district of Northern Missouri as chief commissary, remained two years and was breveted major.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
He saw much active service, and was breveted a Major General July 26, 1865.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio
Bonneville became a major in 1845, and was breveted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco during the Mexican War.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
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
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.
He took part in the Mexican War, and was brevetted Captain for gallant services.
From A History of the Republican Party by Platt, George Washington
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