Definition of brest Brest
/bɹɛˈst/ - [brest] - Brest
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What does brest mean?
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| brest - a port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France |
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- brest (3d sing.pr.)
for Bursteth. - brest (n.)
Alt. of Breast
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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brest
A seaport in Northwestern France; besieged by Julius Cæsar, 54 B.C.; possessed by the English in 1378; given up to the Duke of Brittany in 1390. Lord Berkeley and a British fleet and army were repulsed here with dreadful loss in 1694. The magazine burnt to the value of some millions of pounds sterling, 1744; marine hospital, with 50 galley-slaves, burnt, in 1766; the magazine again destroyed by fire, July 10, 1784. England maintained a large blockading squadron off the harbor from 1793 to 1815, but with little injury to France. It is now a chief naval station of France, and from the fortifications and other vast works of late construction it is considered impregnable.
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France
Brest (Breton, Brest) is a city found in Brittany, France.
