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Donald Bren
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Bren gun

  [bren]
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–noun
a .303-caliber, gas-operated, air-cooled, clip-fed submachine gun.
Also, bren gun.
Also called Bren, bren.

Origin:
1935–40; Br(no), Moravia + En(field), England, towns of manufacture
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Donald Bren
Chairman of the Irvine Company. Innovator. Entrepreneur. Investor.
www.Donald-Bren.com
Word Origin & History

Bren 
type of machine gun used by the British army in WWII, 1937, short for Bren gun, coined from first letters of Brno, Czechoslovakia, and Enfield, near London. The patent was purchased in Brno, and the gun was manufactured in Enfield.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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