brevet
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of brevet
1325–75; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French brievet. See brief, -et
Example Sentences
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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
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
The "major" came afterwards "by brevet," and Vinton had settled down into contentedly following the old life, though in a less exciting time and exalted capacity.
From Kitty's Conquest by King, Charles
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
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 Dreiser, Theodore
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 Howells, William Dean
He participated with distinction in several engagements, and for these services was breveted Brigadier General.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice
For his services on this occasion he was breveted major-general, September 14, 1814, and Congress gave him a vote of thanks and a gold medal.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand
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
When the war was over the old veteran retired from the service with full military rank, and was brevetted an American citizen besides.
From Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 by Wright, Henrietta Christian
Captain Truman Seymour, twice brevetted for gallantry at Cerro Gordo and Chernbusco, was an excellent artillery officer, full of invention and resource, a lover of poetry, and an adept at music and painting.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner
During the Civil War, Meigs served as quartermaster general, and in 1864 he was brevetted major general.
From Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper No. 47 [Smithsonian Institution] by Klapthor, Margaret Brown
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