brevet
pronunciation
How to pronounce brevet in British English:
UK ['brevɪt]
How to pronounce brevet in American English:
US [ brə'vɛt]
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- Noun:
- a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay)
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- Verb:
- promote somebody by brevet, in the military
Word Origin
- brevet (n.)
- mid-14c., from Old French brievet "letter, note, piece of paper; papal indulgence" (13c.), diminutive of bref "letter, note" (see brief (adj.)). Army sense is from 1680s.
- brevet (v.)
- 1839, from French breveter, from brevet (see brevet (n.)). Related: Breveted; breveting.
Example
- 1. Brevet looked at the prisoner , then turned towards the court .
- 2. Brevet dropped his eyes .
- 3. They do not hesitate ; he is jean valjean for them as well as for brevet .
- 4. Brevet gave a start of surprise , and surveyed him from head to foot with a frightened air .
- 5. And then he thought , also , without knowing why , and with the mechanical persistence of revery , of a convict named brevet , whom he had known in the galleys , and whose trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton .