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Brest

UK/bɹɛst/ US/ˈbrɛst/ rare obsolete

noun

1.

a port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France

Origin

From Breton Brest (via French), from Proto-Celtic *brixs (“hill”), compare Scottish Gaelic bre.

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