Breton

How To Use Breton In A Sentence

• The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
• The dangerous frontier counties, or marches, had special governors- graf, margrave, or markherzog; Roland of Roncesvalles, for example, was governor of the Breton march. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
• Mr. Fischer depicts Champlain as a wise gleaner of facts who listened to Basque whalers, Breton fishermen, African slaves -- anyone who could impart information. A Forgotten Explorateur
• During the repasts a violinist and a biniou - player, dressed in his Breton costume, played to us. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
• The ham, béchamel and white asparagus crêpe bretonne wasn't particularly remarkable but perhaps, like an overhyped movie, we expected too much from it.
• They belong to the Goidelic or Q-Celtic branch of Celtic languages, AFAIK, and Welsh, Breton, and Cornish are Brythonic or P-Celtic. Languagehat.com: TALKIN' CAPE BRETON.
• In a post called "le biniou et la bombarde" a play on words for bagpipe and "wog", commentators claimed that "an extra-European will never be a real Breton. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Yes, great celtic "cousinage" between the Welsh and les Bretons de Bretagne! Poireau - French Word-A-Day
• Breton, Surrealism's leader and a past master of character assassination, claimed in the final issue of Minotaure that Dali was a self-confessed racist, and Dali chose not to respond.
• The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.