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brasero [Sp], a pan, usually of copper or brass, for holding lighted
charcoal; brazier: southwestern U.S.
brasserie [Fr], brewery; also, saloon; bar that serves food.
brasseur [Can Fr], the harp seal.
brat [Russ; pi. bratya], brother.
Bratwurst [Ger], lit., sausage meat without waste; sausage.
brava! (to a woman), bravo! (to a man) [It], well done!
bravissimo! [It; superlative of bravo], very well done! excellent!
¡bravo! [Sp], well done!
bravura [It], lit., bravery or spirit; a florid style of music requiring high
technical skill in its rendition; virtuoso music: music.
bref [Fr], in short; in fine.
brelan [Fr], a card game resembling poker.
breloque [Fr], trinket; charm; ornamental attachment to a watch chain;
mil., a beat of drum as a signal to break ranks or as a call to meals,
etc.; barrack call. Called also berloque.
breve orazione penetra [It], short prayers pierce (Heaven); God listens
to short prayers.
brevet d'invention [Fr], certificate of invention; patent.
breveté [Fr], patented; also, patentee.
brevi manu [L], lit., with a short hand; offhand; summarily.
brevis esse laboro, obscuras fio [L], in trying to be concise, I become
obscure: Horace.
briago [corr. of Sp. embnagado], drunkard: Texas.
Briefkasten [Ger; pi Briefkästen], mailbox.
Briefmarke [Ger; pi. Briefmarken], postage stamp.
Briefträger [Ger; sing. &? pi], letter carrier; postman.
brigada [Sp], mil., brigade; mining, etc., shift; gang of workmen.
brigue [Fr], intrigue; bribery; cabal.
brillante [It], brilliant; sparkling: music.
briller par son absence [Fr], to be conspicuous by his absence.
brimade [Fr], practical joking; horseplay: Fr. mil. slang.
brio [It], vivacity; spirit; animation.
brioche [Fr], a roll baked from light yeast dough, eggs, and butter;
fig., a blunder; mistake.
briquet [Fr], steel; tinderbox; esp., a steel used by smokers for striking
a light.
brisance [Fr], the peculiar shattering effect of high explosives.
brisant [Fr], producing brisance.
brisé [Fr], broken.
brisons-là [Fr], let us say no more about it; enough!
brocanteur [Fr], secondhand dealer.
broche [Fr], a spit: cookery.
broché [Fr; fern, brochée], stitched (as a book, esp. a paper-covered
one); embossed, as linen; woven with a raised figure.