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noun
a region in NW France, on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: a former duchy and province.
French, Bretagne.
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Brittany
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| Brittany2 | |
| —n , pl -nies | |
| a medium-sized strongly-built variety of retriever with a slightly wavy coat usu. in tan and white, liver and white, or black and white | |
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Brittany
Fr. Bretagne, named for 5c. refugees from the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain who crossed the channel and settled there (see Britain). The Little Britain of old, contrasted with the Great Britain. As a name for girls, almost unknown in U.S. before 1970, then a top-10 name
EXPANDfor babies born between 1986 and 1995.
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